Markedness Relations and Implicational Universals in the Typology of Onset Obstruent Clusters
Markedness Relations and Implicational Universals in the Typology of Onset Obstruent Clusters
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起始阻塞簇类型学中的标记关系和隐含共性
DOI:
10.7282/t3028pm5
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发表时间:
1998
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
F. Morelli
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作者:
F. Morelli
Languages of the world differ in the structure of their onsets. Some languages only allow simple onsets, whereas others allow consonants clusters in onsets with different degrees of complexity. Among the languages which show complex onsets, some strictly obey the Sonority Sequencing Principle (SSP), (Hooper 1976; Kiparsky 1979; Steriade 1982; Selkirk 1984; Clements 1990 and Zec 1995 among others), and allow only core clusters, i.e. clusters that rise in sonority toward the syllable peak; others, instead, also allow clusters that do not conform to the SSP generalizations. Clusters containing two adjacent tautosyllabic consonants with the same sonority rank (sonority plateaus) or clusters in which the least sonorous segment is closer to the peak than the more sonorous one (sonority reversals) are considered violators of the SSP. Among the violators, clusters of the type "s+Stop" are quite common across languages, regardless of the fact that the SSP does not recognize them among the preferred sequences.