کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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935944 | 923942 | 2011 | 21 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
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Aspirated fricatives are typologically uncommon sounds, only found in a handful of languages. This paper studies the diachronic pathways leading to the creation of aspirated fricatives. A review of the literature brings out seven such historical pathways. An eighth, heretofore unreported pattern of change is revealed by Shuiluo Pumi, a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in China.These diachronic data have non-trivial implications for phonological modelling as well as for the synchronic typology of sound patterns.First, they provide new evidence for the debate concerning the definition of the feature [+spread glottis].Second, they explain some of the typological properties of aspirated fricatives, in particular the absence of aspirated fricatives in consonant clusters and the rarity of non-coronal aspirated fricatives.
► In this paper we provide original data from Pumi and Tibetan.
► These data illustrate previously undocumented diachronic origins for aspirated fricatives.
► We study the diachronic origin of aspirated fricatives from a cross-linguistic perspective.
► We show that four main pathways leading to the creation of aspirated fricatives are attested.
► We document an uncommon case of cluster reduction and stop lenition in Pumi.
Journal: Lingua - Volume 121, Issue 9, July 2011, Pages 1518–1538