Stoll, Taja (2017): Articulatory analysis of palatalised rhotics in Russian: implications for sound change. Dissertation, LMU München: Faculty for Languages and Literatures |
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Abstract
The present work investigated the articulatory variation of palatalised and plain rhotics and laterals in Russian. It has often been often observed that palatalised rhotics are diachronically quite unstable, which has been attributed to the articulatory incompatibility between trilling and palatalisation. The sound changes which affected palatalised rhotics in Slavic languages can be divided into three categories (Kavitskaya 1997, Carlton 1991): 1) contrast neutralisation: palatalised /rj/ and plain /r/ merge into /r/ (Chapter 2) 2) glide insertion: /rj/ changes into a sequence of plain /r/ followed by a glide /j/ (Chapter 3) 3)spirantisation: /rj/ changes into a fricative trill /r/ or a postalveolar fricative /Z/ (Chapter 4) Although laterals and rhotics belong to the same class of liquids (Proctor 2009, Kochetov 2005), the phonological opposition between /lj/ and /l/ has been neutralised less often than between /rj/ and /r/. This thesis aimed to investigate whether the comparison between rhotics and laterals could shed light on the diachronic instability of the phonological opposition between /rj/ and /r/ and of palatalised rhotics itself.
Item Type: | Theses (Dissertation, LMU Munich) |
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Keywords: | palatalisation, rhotics, laterals, Russian, phonetics, sound change, Articulatory Phonology |
Subjects: | 400 Language 400 Language > 490 Other languages |
Faculties: | Faculty for Languages and Literatures |
Language: | English |
Date of oral examination: | 3. February 2017 |
1. Referee: | Harrington, Jonathan |
MD5 Checksum of the PDF-file: | c1c27bb8ab07e50fbaf3fafae10d9335 |
Signature of the printed copy: | 0001/UMC 25539 |
ID Code: | 22314 |
Deposited On: | 14. Jun 2018 13:57 |
Last Modified: | 23. Oct 2020 17:23 |