Stops and affricates and terminology

[Ryan Denzer-King]

Hi James,

 

What do you think about classing affricates as stops?  If they behave phonologically like stops, I can see no reason why you couldn't say that.  I'm sure I've seen this done in certain languages before.

 

Ryan Denzer-King
 
> Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 18:11:19 -1000
> From: jcrippen at GMAIL.COM
> Subject: Stops and affricates and terminology
> To: ATHAPBASCKAN-L at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> 
> As far as I understand things, in all the Athabaskan languages the
> series of (oral) stops and affricates together form a natural class of
> consonants. Certainly this is true in Tlingit, where affricates behave
> like stops phonologically. (Phonetically they are quite different, of
> course.) The annoying thing is that I have to keep writing clumsy
> phrases like "all unaspirated stops and affricates", or "all ejective
> stops and affricates". Is there a term which unites both classes under
> a single umbrella? Something like "obstruent" but excluding
> fricatives? Saying "non-fricative obstruents" is even worse than
> "stops and affricates". I have asked all of my local phonologists,
> even the historical linguists, but none could think of such a term.
> 
> Thanks,
> James
 		 	   		  
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