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ROA 656-0404

An exception to final devoicing

Marc van Oostendorp <Marc.van.Oostendorp at Meertens.knaw.nl>

Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?roa=656


Abstract:
Some dialects of Dutch display an interesting systematic
exception to an otherwise completely general and automatic
process of final devoicing: the final fricatives of first
person singular forms of verbs. It is argued in this article
(i) that the fact that this exception always involves fricatives
but no stops should be seen as an indication that the representat
ion of voicing is different for fricatives than it is for
stops in Dutch (more specifically, that the relevant underlying
distinction is length for fricatives and not a feature [voice]),
and (ii) that the morphological conditioning of this process
cannot be seen as a paradigm effect but should rather be
seen as the result of an empty vowel functioning as the
first person singular morpheme.

Comments: 
Keywords: Final devoicing, fricative voicing, empty vowels
Areas: Phonology,Morphology
Type: Journal Article

Direct link: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?roa=656