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. 2007 May;29(2-3):247-269.
doi: 10.1016/j.langsci.2006.12.012.

English Voicing in Dimensional Theory

Gregory K Iverson  1 , Sang-Cheol Ahn
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English Voicing in Dimensional Theory

Gregory K Iverson et al. Lang Sci. 2007 May.

Abstract

Assuming a framework of privative features, this paper interprets two apparently disparate phenomena in English phonology as structurally related: the lexically specific voicing of fricatives in plural nouns like wives or thieves and the prosodically governed "flapping" of medial /t/ (and /d/) in North American varieties, which we claim is itself not a rule per se, but rather a consequence of the laryngeal weakening of fortis /t/ in interaction with speech-rate determined segmental abbreviation. Taking as our point of departure the Dimensional Theory of laryngeal representation developed by Avery & Idsardi (2001), along with their assumption that English marks voiceless obstruents but not voiced ones (Iverson & Salmons 1995), we find that an unexpected connection between fricative voicing and coronal flapping emerges from the interplay of familiar phonemic and phonetic factors in the phonological system.

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