Phonetics and Phonology of Tense and Lax Obstruents in German
Michael Jessen
Knowing that the so-called voiced and voiceless stops in languages like English and German do not always literally differ in voicing, several linguists among them Roman Jakobson have proposed that dichotomies such as fortis/lenis or tense/lax might be more suitable to capture the invariant… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 44] 1998. xx, 394 pp.