2001/06/01 by Leo Wetzels, Joan Mascaró · 185 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Phonetics and Phonology Research #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Linguistics and language evolution #Voice #Linguistics #Syllable #Linguistic typology #Affect (linguistics) #Assimilation (phonology) #Value (mathematics) #Typology #Psychology #Computer science #History
paper · doi:10.1353/lan.2001.0123
published in Language 77(2), 207-244 (Linguistic Society of America)
openalex publication_date 2001/06/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
This article provides empirical evidence against the claims that [voice] is a privative feature and that word-internal devoicing can occur in a language without word-final devoicing. The study of voice patterns in a number of languages shows that the feature value [– voice] although it is the unmarked value of the laryngeal feature [voice], can be active phonologically in a fashion parallel to the marked value [+ voice]. Across languages, voice assimilation may occur independently of devoicing and, although it normally affects both [+voice] and [– voice], it may affect only one value in some languages.