Development of voice onset time in an ongoing phonetic differentiation in Austrian German plosives: Reversing a near-merger

Sound change in the form of plosive mergers has been reported for a variety of languages and is the result of a reduction of phonetic distance between two (or more) sounds. The present study is concerned with the opposite development of phonetic differentiation in plosives (akin to a phonetic split)...

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Main Author: Luef Eva Maria
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: De Gruyter 2020-06-01
Series:Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/zfs-2019-2006