Metathesis of aspiration as the source of anticipatory voicelessness in Basque
| hal.structure.identifier | Centre de recherche sur la langue et les textes basques [IKER] | |
| dc.contributor.author | EGURTZEGI, Ander | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0959-2695 | |
| dc.description.abstractEn | In Basque, there is evidence, especially in early loans from Latin, that a sequence #DV(R)T… where D is a voiced stop and T is a voiceless (aspirated) stop was optionally produced with devoicing of the first of these stops. An additional particularity of this sound pattern is that the devoiced word-initial stop typically surfaces with aspiration, while the previously aspirated stop loses it: #DV(R)T (h) … > #T (h) V(R)T… This typologically uncommon sound pattern has been described as assimilation of voicelessness in the literature, or spread of [-voiced]. I propose that this sound pattern is triggered by aspiration, not voicelessness, and that it is a case of metathesis, not assimilation. Under the proposed analysis, aspiration of the second stop in the word is reanalysed as originating in the first stop, an instance of perceptual metathesis . This approach accounts for the distribution of aspirated stops before and after the optional change, and the failure of post-sibilant stops to trigger. This account also has implications for the chronology of aspiration-loss in Western dialects: at the time the earliest Latin loans were borrowed, all Basque dialects still maintained a historical series of aspirated stops. Only later, after this process of optional metathesis, did the Western dialects lose *h and stop aspiration. | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) | |
| dc.title.en | Metathesis of aspiration as the source of anticipatory voicelessness in Basque | |
| dc.type | Article de revue | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1017/S0959269518000339 | |
| dc.subject.hal | Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Linguistique | |
| bordeaux.journal | Journal of French Language Studies | |
| bordeaux.page | 265--279 | |
| bordeaux.volume | 29 | |
| bordeaux.issue | 2 | |
| bordeaux.peerReviewed | oui | |
| hal.identifier | hal-02533065 | |
| hal.version | 1 | |
| hal.origin.link | https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr//hal-02533065v1 | |
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