A Theory of Aspiration
About: This article is published in Phonetica.The article was published on 1970-03-01. It has received 160 citations till now.
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TL;DR: The size and structure of phonological inventories have been discussed in this article, with a focus on vowel spacing and the design of the UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database' Indices.
Abstract: Preface 1. The size and structure of phonological inventories 2. Stops and affricates 3. Fricatives 4. Nasals 5. Liquids 6. Vocoid approximants 7. Glottalic and laryngealized consonants 8. Vowels 9. Insights on vowel spacing 10. The design of the UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database' Indices.
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TL;DR: This study examines acoustic and aerodynamic characteristics of consonants in standard Korean and in Cheju, an endangered Korean language, and suggests that the fricative /s/ is better categorized as &&lenis'' rather than &&aspirated''.
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13 Aug 1987
TL;DR: Part I: Phonological structure, structure of phonological segments, dependency structures in phonology, and the articulatory gesture.
Abstract: Part I. Phonological Structure: 1. The structure of phonological segments 2. The structure of phonological sequences 3. Dependency structures in phonology Part II. Phonological Gestures and their Structure: 4. The categorical gesture: phonation 5. The categorical gesture: initiation 6. The articulatory gesture Part III. Overview: 8. Conclusions and consequences.
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TL;DR: This paper explored the phonological realisation of stop consonant aspiration in Germanic as the reflex manifestation of a spread or open glottis, an idea first advanced in the seminal work of Kim (1970), and since developed in Anderson & Ewen's treatment of O| languages.
Abstract: The phonetic gesture of stop consonant aspiration, which is predictable in a Germanic language such as English, has been described traditionally as ranging from a ‘puff of air’ upon release of closure (Heffner 1950) to the segmental occurrence of a following voiceless glottal approximant /h/ (Trager & Smith 1951). Within the generative phonology paradigm, however, aspiration has been construed as a featural property rather than as an independent segment of its own, often casually identified simply as [+aspiration], or, following Chomsky & Halle (1968), as a positive specification resulting from ‘heightened subglottal pressure’. We take this kind of view here as well, employing a notation with superscript h ([Ch]) to indicate representations in which aspiration is encoded as an integral feature of the segment with which it is associated, while we explore the phonological realisation of aspiration in Germanic as the reflex manifestation of a spread or open glottis, an idea first advanced in the seminal work of Kim (1970), and since developed in Anderson & Ewen's treatment of ‘|O| languages’ (1987: 195–199)
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TL;DR: This article measured apical stops from three children recorded regularly between 1 and 2 years of age and from additional children ranging in age from 6 months to 4½ years, and found that the earliest examples of stops, around 6 months of age, have uniform distributions along the VOT continuum.
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