Acta Linguistica Hungarica
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Volume 59: Issue 1-2
Splitting ‘intervocalic’: Expanding the typology of lenition environments
Authors:
Katalin Bérces

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Patrick Honeybone University of Edinburgh Linguistics and English Language Edinburgh UK

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Pages:
27–48
Online Publication Date:
12 Jun 2012
Publication Date:
01 Jun 2012
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/aling.59.2012.1-2.2
Keywords:
phonology; lenition; intervocalic; stress; Germanic
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The basic types of lenition environments (‘initial’, ‘intervocalic’, ‘final’) need to be separately evaluated as they differ along parameters like word position (e.g., pre-consonantal vs. final codas) or stress relations. This paper argues that we need to recognise an additional such parameter: the length of the vowel preceding an intervocalic consonant. We show that a number of phenomena from varieties of English and German show lenition patterns which draw a distinction between reflexes found in post-short (vc) and post-long (vvc) environments. The theoretical consequence of our observations is that phonological theory needs to be able to account for the post-short vs. post-long distinction in the form of a parametrically-determined representational difference.

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