Voicing assimilation at accentual phrase boundaries in Hungarian
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According to the traditional phonological literature, regressive voicing assimilation in obstruent clusters is an obligatory categorical, completely neutralising process in Hungarian, as long as no major prosodic boundary signalised by a longer pause intervenes between the target and the trigger. In the present experiment, the effect of minor prosodic boundaries, i.e. accentual phrases (AP) on the degree of voicing assimilation was investigated. According to the analysis, assimilation is weakened in stops, but not in fricatives before AP boundaries. Assimilation is blocked for both stops and fricatives if followed by a pause. Thus, the voicing assimilation process is sensitive both to the type of obstruents involved and to the strength of minor boundary marking.
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