Assibilization
As assibilation , Assibilation (from Latin ad "to" and sībilāre "hiss") or Zetazismus (after Zeta , the sixth letter of the Greek alphabet ) is in the phonetics of the change of a sound in a sibilant (sibilant z. B. [ s ] , [ for ] , [ ʃ ] , [ ʒ ] , etc.), usually as a result of Palatalisierung called. In particular, this is the change in velar plosives [ ɡ ] and [ k ] before front vowels ( palatal vowels, z. B. [ e ], [ i ]) referred to sibilants. Assibilierungsvorgänge may be in combination with a Affrizierung run, in which case a sibilantische affricate (z. B. [ TS ] , [ tʃ ] , [ dʒ ] , etc.) is created.
Examples:
- In the North Sea Germanic languages , especially English and Frisian :
- Latin c aseus [ k- ] "cheese"> old English. c ēse [ t͡ʃ- ], engl. ch eese [ t͡ʃ- ], west frieze . ts iis (see FIG. However, dt. K äse , ndl. k aas )
- ancient Greek κυρικόν k ȳri k ón "house of God"> oldgl. c iri c e [ t͡ʃɪrɪt͡ʃɛ ], engl. ch ur ch [ t͡ʃəːt͡ʃ ] (cf. but ndl. k er k )
- see. also engl. ch in "chin" and dt. K inn , Old English. le cg to [ -d͡ʒ- ] "attach" and German le g en
- In most Romance languages :
Assibilization occurs e.g. B. also in the German pronunciation of the ending -tion as in Generation as [ -t͡si̯oːn ]. It has the character of a here Epenthesis (Lauteinschiebung to facilitate the debate) of [ s ] between the plosive [ t ] and the palatal semi-vowel [ i ]. Similar phenomena can also be found in other languages, for example the pronunciation of -tion as [ -ʃən ] in English, of -tion as [ -sjɔ̃ ] (in addition to non-sensitized [ -tjɔ̃ ] in certain cases) in French or -tie (such as in generatie ) as [ -t͡si ] in Dutch.
literature
- Hadumod Bußmann (Ed.) With the collaboration of Hartmut Lauffer: Lexikon der Sprachwissenschaft. 4th, revised and bibliographically supplemented edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-520-45204-7 , p. 64 (keyword assibilation ).