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A panchronic study of aspirated fricatives, with new evidence from Pumi

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Aspirated fricatives are typologically uncommon sounds, only found in a handful of languages. This paper studies the diachronic pathways leading to the creation of aspirated fricatives. A review of the literature brings out seven such historical pathways. An eighth, heretofore unreported pattern of change is revealed by Shuiluo Pumi, a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in China. These diachronic data have non-trivial implications for phonological modelling as well as for the synchronic typology of sound patterns. First, they provide new evidence for the debate concerning the definition of the feature [+spread glottis]. Second, they explain some of the typological properties of aspirated fricatives, in particular the absence of aspirated fricatives in consonant clusters and the rarity of noncoronal aspirated fricatives.

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Linguistique
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halshs-00605893 , version 1 (04-07-2011)

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Guillaume Jacques. A panchronic study of aspirated fricatives, with new evidence from Pumi. Lingua, 2011, 121 (9), pp.1518-1538. ⟨10.1016/j.lingua.2011.04.003⟩. ⟨halshs-00605893⟩
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