Abstract
In this paper I consider an unusual sound change and synchronic alternation in southeastern dialects of Welsh, traditionally referred to as ‘provection’ (Welsh calediad). This phenomenon involves the ‘devoicing’ of stops following stressed vowels. I analyse it as the result of a typologically rare kind of vowel-consonant featural interaction, where ‘devoicing’ is triggered by tense vowels. This is unexpected typologically, since tongue root advancement— often a correlate of ‘tense’ vowel quality — is more frequently associated with voicing rather than devoicing in obstruents. I argue that in Welsh the phonologization of the quality distinction in stressed vowels has created a system where such an interaction is dispreferred.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Primitives of Phonological Structure |
Editors | Marc van Oostendorp, Bert Botma |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
ISBN (Print) | 9780198791126 |
Publication status | Accepted/In press - 16 Oct 2016 |
Publication series
Name | Oxford Studies in Phonology and Phonetcs |
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Publisher | Oxford University Press |
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Pavel Iosad
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