The evolution of sibilants in Polish and Russian
In this paper we provide an account of the historical development of Polish and Russian sibilants. The arguments provided here are of theoretical interest because they show that (i) certain allophonic rules are driven by the need to keep contrasts perceptually distinct, (ii) (unconditioned) sound changes result from needs of perceptual distinctiveness, and (iii) perceptual distinctiveness can be extended to a dass of consonants, i.e. the sibilants. The analysis is cast within Dispersion Theory by providing phonetic and typological data supporting the perceptual distinctiveness claims we make.
| Author: | Jaye Padgett, Marzena Zygis |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1151175 |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 04.05.2010 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2003 |
| Publishing Institution: | Univ.-Bibliothek Frankfurt am Main |
| SWD-Keyword: | Slawische Sprachen; Zischlaut |
| Source: | http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/fileadmin/material/ZASPiL_Volltexte/zp32/zaspil32-zygis-padgett.pdf ; (in:) ZAS Papers in Linguistics 32, 2003, S. 155-174 |
| HeBIS PPN: | 225438623 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 400 Sprache |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Phonetik/Phonologie / Phonetics/Phonology |
| Licence (German): |  Veröffentlichungsvertrag für Publikationen ohne Print on Demand |
