Re: YAC: Widse -- a conlang based on Ygyde

At 12:02 AM -0600 2/4/03, Nik Taylor wrote:
>Dirk Elzinga wrote:
>> The symbol for a non-strident voiced alveolar fricative is [D_-].
>
>What does "non-strident" mean?
Ah. That's me being a bit careless. [strident], strictly speaking, is the feature
which distinguishes sibilants from non-sibilants; sibilants are [+strident].
Sibilants are characterized by high frequency noise (ca 10MHz) and include
[s,z,S,Z,tS,dZ]. Chomsky and Halle (1968) also define [f,v] as [+strident]
because they are characterized by more turbulent noise (than [T,D], but they
are not sibilants.

Not everyone likes or uses the feature [strident] since its motivation is acoustic
rather than articulatory; it plays a crucial role in my analysis of Shoshoni
phonology, so I tend to view sibilants through a [strident] lens.

Dirk
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Dirk Elzinga                                               Dirk_Elzinga@byu.edu

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