Greek ts/dz as Internally Complex Segments: Phonological and Phonetic Evidence

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2010

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Ohio State University. Department of Linguistics

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The "affricate dream" of Householder (1964), in which Modern Greek ts/dz are reduced to clusters of independently occurring segments (thus, ts is analyzed as /t + s/), is examined here in the light of two types of evidence not previously considered: instrumental measurements of the duration of the sounds in question compared with related sounds, and the proper formulation of a dissimilatory dialectal sound change. This evidence shows that the best analysis recognizes these sounds as single segments but with internal complexity, as suggested, but not overtly argued for, in Joseph & Philippaki-Warburton (1987).

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Working Papers in Linguistics, no. 59 (2010), 1-9.

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Working Papers in Linguistics: Volume 59 (Winter 2010)