초록

The purpose of this study is to argue that English fricatives are not likely to experience assimilation due to sufficiency of perceptual cues that fricatives carry. The theory of perceptual cues and preserving constraints were consulted from Steriade(1999, 2000) and Jun(1995, 1996, 2004). In cross-linguistic patterns of place assimilation that Steriade(1999, 2000) and Jun(1995, 1996, 2004) suggested, nasals have been regarded as more frequent target of assimilation than stops, but in English, the opposite seems to be true. Therefore in this paper, the new rank of constraints for feature preserving that goes for English assimilation is suggested. Besides we argue that each place and manner feature of consonants contributes to each place and manner assimilation, not that manner features affect place assimilation. To prove this, using perceptual constraints, we demonstrate that fricatives have high ranked constraint in preserving both place and manner features in turn, nasals and the lowest is stops. The factors that make fricatives lie in the highest rank are assumed to be friction noise and long duration of articulation.

키워드

fricatives, assimilation, perceptual cue, target, preserving constraint

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