divoicing
CLASS SESSION:
OCTOBER 26TH, 2013
Essay
There is a long-standing tradition in phonology of regarding the widespread process in a final obstruent devoicing as a form of hardening or strengthening.
The voicing is an alternation found in plural formation is losing ground in the modern language, and of the alternations ,many speakers retain only the f and v pattern, which is supported by the orthography. This voicing is a relic of Old English; the unvoiced consonants between voiced vowels were 'colored' with voicing. As the language became more analytic and less inflectional, final vowels/syllables stopped being pronounced. For example, a modern knife is a one syllable word instead of a two syllable word, with the vowel 'e' not being pronounced.
However, the voicing alternation between f and v still occurs. Explaining deeper we can tell that devoicing is actually two processes: a phonological one involving re-linking of a preceding obstruent’s [+spread glottis] to a following high vowel, with or without a temporal shift in the alignment of the feature; and a phonetic process that operates in a gradient fashion when phonological devoicing does not apply.
Further for the characterization of devoicing of high vowels as phonological. This voicing instructions of high vowels in all devoicing environments, contrary to the restriction of overlap to high vowels between fricatives posited in Tsuchida (1997). Recall that in that work it was found that only between two voiceless fricatives were two distinct muscle activations and associated glottal spreadings observed; in all other environments, one muscle activation accompanied by one temporally shifted glottal spreading.
In phonology, voicing or sonorization and devoicing are sound changes, whereby a consonant changes its type of voicing from voiceless to voiced, or vice versa, due to the influence of its phonological environment. Most commonly, the change is caused because of sound assimilation
OCTOBER 26TH, 2013
Essay
There is a long-standing tradition in phonology of regarding the widespread process in a final obstruent devoicing as a form of hardening or strengthening.
The voicing is an alternation found in plural formation is losing ground in the modern language, and of the alternations ,many speakers retain only the f and v pattern, which is supported by the orthography. This voicing is a relic of Old English; the unvoiced consonants between voiced vowels were 'colored' with voicing. As the language became more analytic and less inflectional, final vowels/syllables stopped being pronounced. For example, a modern knife is a one syllable word instead of a two syllable word, with the vowel 'e' not being pronounced.
However, the voicing alternation between f and v still occurs. Explaining deeper we can tell that devoicing is actually two processes: a phonological one involving re-linking of a preceding obstruent’s [+spread glottis] to a following high vowel, with or without a temporal shift in the alignment of the feature; and a phonetic process that operates in a gradient fashion when phonological devoicing does not apply.
Further for the characterization of devoicing of high vowels as phonological. This voicing instructions of high vowels in all devoicing environments, contrary to the restriction of overlap to high vowels between fricatives posited in Tsuchida (1997). Recall that in that work it was found that only between two voiceless fricatives were two distinct muscle activations and associated glottal spreadings observed; in all other environments, one muscle activation accompanied by one temporally shifted glottal spreading.
In phonology, voicing or sonorization and devoicing are sound changes, whereby a consonant changes its type of voicing from voiceless to voiced, or vice versa, due to the influence of its phonological environment. Most commonly, the change is caused because of sound assimilation