Normative

• Main Author: Zita Mcrobbie-utasi
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: sami
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.693.2484; http://www.sfu.ca/%7Emcrobbie/Honti.pdf

preaspiration in Skolt Sami in relation to the distribution of duration in the disyllabic stress-group Recent research has distinguished between normative and non-normative preaspiration (Helgason 1988, 1999a). The term normative refers to the fact that … ” the early timing of glottal abduction relative to oral closure in vowels preceding a voiceless stop consonant … [is] an obligatory feature of the sequence of vowel and fortis stop”. (Helgason 1999a:1851) As a consequence of early voice offset before a stop or an affricate consonant, a noise resembling [h] is produced between the two segments. Durational patterns evident in Skolt Sami preaspiration indicate an interdependence between preaspiration duration and the duration of the two main stress-group locations (the first syllabic vowel and the stop or affricate consonant following). On account of this apparent interdependence it will be suggested that Skolt Sami preaspiration be considered as constrained normative preaspiration. It will further be argued that (i) there is an inverse relationship between prevocalic and preaspiration durations, and that (ii) preaspiration durations do not affect the characteristic ratio patterns associated with disyllabics belonging to different structural types. 1.