Klamath Sibilant Degemination
Implications of a Recent Sound Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4559979 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Juliette Blevins (0000-0002-2063-4778, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 279-289 |
| Publication date | 2004-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of American Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7071 • E-ISSN: 1545-7001 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/425602 |
| OpenAlex | W1975169416 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 14 |
This paper documents a recent sound change in Klamath of *ss > s which took place sometime between the late 1800s and the mid 1900s. A phonetic basis for this sound change is proposed, based on the intrinsic duration of short sibilants. This sound change not only explains the absence of geminate sibilants in modern Klamath but also the lack of derived distributive forms which, historically, differed only from nondistributives in the presence of a geminate sibilant
Acoustics · Distributive property · Linguistics · Physics · Sound (geography · Sound change · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Music and Audio Processing · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research
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| Citations per year | 0.15 |
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| Citation span | 2006 - 2006 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |