A note on Modern Hebrew voicing assimilation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23024369 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Avi Mizrachi (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 49-56 |
| Publication date | 2019-06-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Brill's Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1876-6633 • E-ISSN: 1877-6930 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/18776930-01101004 |
| OpenAlex | W2954357569 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
In Hebrew, consecutive obstruents that differ in voicing can be produced with the same voicing. This process is regressive as the first obstruent assimilates to the obstruent following it. It is also an optional process as it is dependent on the rate of speech and the formality of the utterance (Bolozky 1978, 1997). Using elicited data, an acoustic study on intervocalic obstruent sequences in Hebrew (Mizrachi 2016) has recently shown that assimilation-to-voiceless is more frequent than assimilation-to-voiced. Moreover, not only does devoicing assimilation occur more often, but it also occurs progressively—at least in terms of vocal fold vibration—in more cases than suggested in previous work.
Assimilation (phonology) · Hebrew · Linguistics · Obstruent · Speech recognition · Voice · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Speech Recognition and Synthesis
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |