The role of place and manner of articulation in Kurt öp tonogenesis: refining the model

This study examines the role that sonority and place of articulation have in the spread of tone from voicing contrasts on preceding consonants in Kurtöp. First, we find that tone is more likely to be produced following fricatives than when following stops. Second, we see that within the stops, tone phonologises more readily following some places of articulation over others. Taken as a whole, this shows us that tone is moving through Kurtöp, following the most sonorous segments first and moving to the least sonorous segments. These findings thus help us refine our theory of tonogenesis and show that functional pressures have strong influences in this particular pathway of sound change.PMID:38522002 | DOI:10.1515/phon-2024-2001
Source: Phonetica - Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Source Type: research