Voicing of obstruents in Old Polish: An analysis of compensatory lengthening
Voicing of obstruents in Old Polish: An analysis of compensatory lengthening
Author(s): Ewa WojciechowskaSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Phonetics / Phonology
Published by: Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL & Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Keywords: voicing; elements; Compensatory Lengthening; CVCV phonology; Licensing; phonological representation; vowel length
Summary/Abstract: In this paper it is suggested that in the ancestral stages of the system, Polish obstruents were characterized by the presence of an H element responsible for voicelessness instead of an L element, interpreted phonetically as full voicing, postulated for Present-day Polish and other Slavic systems. This claim is made on the basis of a CVCV analysis of Compensatory Lengthening—a process which affected the majority of the Slavic world in the period when particular Slavic languages were evolving from Common Slavic.
Journal: Roczniki Humanistyczne
- Issue Year: 63/2015
- Issue No: 11
- Page Range: 125-144
- Page Count: 20
- Language: English