2002/08/01 by Michael E. Jessen, Catherine Ringen · 2 citations
Psychology · Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Phonetics and Phonology Research #Speech Recognition and Synthesis #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Voice #Obstruent #Glottis #Syllable #German #Contrast (vision) #Speech recognition #Linguistics #Computer science #Larynx #Artificial intelligence #Philosophy
paper · doi:10.1017/s0952675702004311
openalex publication_date 2002/08/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
It is well known that initially and when preceded by a word that ends with a voiceless sound, German so-called ‘voiced’ stops are usually voiceless, that intervocalically both voiced and voiceless stops occur and that syllable-final (obstruent) stops are voiceless. Such a distribution is consistent with an analysis in which the contrast is one of [voice] and syllable-final stops are devoiced. It is also consistent with the view that in German the contrast is between stops that are [spread glottis] and those that are not. On such a view, the intervocalic voiced stops arise because of passive voicing of the non-[spread glottis] stops. The purpose of this paper is to present experimental results that support the view that German has underlying [spread glottis] stops, not [voice] stops.