Re: IPA diacritics and stuff

On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 20:45:46 +0200, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

>14-08-03 04:47, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
>
>> Ladefoged & Maddieson's thorough analysis of the s(h)ibilants reveals that
>> the following parameters can play a role:
>>
>> articulator:
>> 1 blade of the tongue (laminal)
>> 2 tip of the tongue (apical)
>> 3 underside of the tip of the tongue (sub-apical)
>
>And what about the anterior part of the dorsum?
>
>> place of articulation:
>> 1 the upper teeth (dental)
>> 2 the alevolar ridge (alveolar)
>> 3 behind the alveolar ridge (post-alveolar)
>> 4 the hard palate (palatal)
>
>One might also want to squeeze "prepalatal" between "postalveolar" and
>"palatal". Polish <s', z', c', dz'> are (antero-)dorso-prepalatal rather
>than lamino-postalveolar.

I think Ladefoged & Maddieson's analysis is that Polish (and Mandarin) [s']
etc. can be accomodated within the "standard" set of articulations (laminal
post-alveolar in this case), at the cost of an extra parameter "shape of
the tongue" (here "palatalized", i.e. with antero-dorso/prepalatal
contact).

>> the shape of the tongue (blade/back):
>> 1 grooved \ dental,
>> 2 flat / alveolar
>> 3 domed \ post-alveolar,
>> 4 palatalized / (palatal)

L & M list 10 types of sibilants:

1 s| apical dental Mandarin, Diegueño, Polish /s/
2 s alveolar English, Ubyx /s/
3 s- laminal alveolar Toda /s/
4 s, laminal flat post-alveolar Mandarin, Polish, Ubykh /s^/
5 s_ apical post-alveolar Diequeño, Toda /s^/
6 S domed post-alveolar English /s^/
7 S- laminal domed post-alveolar Toda /s'/
8 s' laminal palatalized post-alv. Mandarin, Polish, Ubyx /s'/
9 s^ laminal closed post-alveolar Ubyx /s*/
10 s. sub-apical palatal Toda /s./

Basque has three sibilants (with corresponding affricates), written <z>,
<s> and <x>. They are laminal alveolar, apical alveolar and post-alveolar,
respectively, so to fit in Basque we need to add an 11th type:

11 s` apical alveolar Basque /s'/


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