30.405, Books: Voicing in transition: Ouddeken

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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 12:31:33
From: J. van Duijn Genet [lot at uva.nl]
Subject: Voicing in transition: Ouddeken

 


Title: Voicing in transition 
Subtitle: Laryngeal characteristics in West-Germanic and Italo-Romance dialects 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/voicing-in-transition-laryngeal-characteristics-in-west-germanic-and-italo-romance-dialects 


Author: Nina Ouddeken

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933059 Pages: 263 Price: Europe EURO 34


Abstract:

Geographical patterns in language can be very informative for the study of
language variation. In this dissertation, patterns of variation are studied in
two transition zones: geographically adjacent areas between which a change in
the realisation of a linguistic characteristic is found. In the Low Saxon
dialect continuum in the Netherlands and Germany, the transition between
voicing and aspiration languages is studied. In the dialect continuum between
Emilian-Romagnol and Tuscan varieties in Italy, the transition between
varieties with and varieties without intervocalic /s/-voicing is studied. This
study shows that both linguistic and socio-geographic factors influence
patterns of linguistic variation.

In the first region, the change between the two systems is gradual, and
characterised by a phonologically intermediate system and phonetic variation.
This is caused by the presence of conflicting input in the transition zone,
which provides evidence for a voicing system and an aspiration system
simultaneously. In the second region, the change between the two systems is
phonologically abrupt, and phonetically abrupt for older and phonetically
gradual for younger speakers. The absence of a phonological transition can be
attributed to the fact that the difference between varieties can be reduced to
a distributional difference. The phonological characteristics of the studied
phenomena can explain the differences in phonological characteristics of the
transitions. The phonetic differences between the regions, on the contrary,
cannot be explained by linguistic characteristics, because any linguistic
phenomenon should allow for phonetic variation. Instead, it must be explained
by socio-geographic factors such as speakers’ regional orientation.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Phonology

Language Family(ies): Romance
                      West Germanic 


Written In: English  (eng)

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