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| Title | : | 英語における「声の同化」について |
| Title alternative | : | Voicing Assimilation in English |
| Authors | : | 石原, 昌英 |
| Authors alternative | : | Ishihara, Masahide |
| Issue Date | : | Dec-1997 |
| Abstract | : | This paper presents an argument against the claim made by Mester and Ito (1989) and Lombardi (1991, 1995) that feature [voiced] is privative. Based on an analysis of the appearance of ／p／ in words such as assumption and redemption, I argue that the feature is binary. That is, [－voiced] should be present and active in the lexical phonology of English. I also show that, in addition to the emergence of the voiceless bilabial stop, the leftward spreading of a Laryngeal Node dominating [-voiced] causes devoicing of both ／b／ and ／v／ as well as despirantization in words like description and reception. I also argue that devoicing of the plural suffix after a voiceless obstruent is due to a spreading of a Laryngeal Node dominating [-voiced]. It is not due to a constraint which requires a tautosyllablic sequence of obstruents have the same value of the [voiced] feature. |
| Type Local | : | 紀要論文 |
| ISSN | : | 1341-0482 |
| Publisher | : | 琉球大学法文学部 |
| URI | : | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12000/2744 |
| Citation | : | 琉球大学欧米文化論集 ＝ Ryudai Review of Euro-American Studies no.42 p.1 -19 |
| Appears in Collections | : | No.42 (1997/12)
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