2009/08/01 by Jill N. Beckman, Michael E. Jessen, Catherine Ringen · 1 citation
Psychology · Social Sciences · Computer Science · #Phonetics and Phonology Research #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Speech Recognition and Synthesis #Coda #Voice #German #Glottis #Contrast (vision) #Variation (astronomy) #Linguistics #Computer science #Speech recognition #Artificial intelligence #Acoustics #Physics #Philosophy #Larynx
paper · doi:10.1017/s0952675709990121
openalex publication_date 2009/08/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
Abstract In this paper we show how Jessen & Ringen's (2002) analysis of voicing in German stops can be extended to account for the voicing of German fricatives. It is argued that while stops in German contrast for the feature [spread glottis], fricatives contrast for [voice] (and [spread glottis]). Our analysis, which involves presonorant faithfulness, is compared to an analysis with coda devoicing. We show that the two analyses make crucially different predictions, and present experimental evidence in support of the presonorant faithfulness analysis. The experimental results show considerable variation, which can be accommodated in our OT analysis.