Universal #1428

Legacy number: 1428

 Number  1424
 Original  Secondary oral stops, apart from borrowings, are the results of diachronic developments from clusters.
 Standardized  Secondary oral stops, apart from borrowings, are the results of diachronic developments from clusters.
 Keywords  stop, cluster
 Domain  phonology
 Type  target < source
 Status  diachronic
 Quality  statistical
 Basis  317 language sample from Nartey 1979
 Source  Nartey 1979: 28

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Discussion
Notes
A secondary oral stop is a stop made with extra contributions from articulators other than those involved in the production of a primary oral stop (e.g. lip rounding to produce labialized stops). Also included are those stops that are either preceded or followed by a short period of nasal closure (as in the nasalized sounds), or voiceless vowels (as in the aspirated sounds)(Nartey 1979: 24).Primary oral stops are those speech sounds made with a pulmonic air stream and a complete closure of two articulators (as in the single articulations /p,t/) or four articulators (as in the double articulations /kp, gb/). The release of such sounds may be sudden (as in the stops /p,t/) or delayed (as in the affricates /pf, ts/) (Nartey 1979: 17).
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
A secondary oral stop is a stop made with extra contributions from articulators other than those involved in the production of a primary oral stop (e.g. lip rounding to produce labialized stops). Also included are those stops that are either preceded or followed by a short period of nasal closure (as in the nasalized sounds), or voiceless vowels (as in the aspirated sounds)(Nartey 1979: 24). Primary oral stops are those speech sounds made with a pulmonic air stream and a complete closure of two articulators (as in the single articulations /p,t/) or four articulators (as in the double articulations /kp, gb/). The release of such sounds may be sudden (as in the stops /p,t/) or delayed (as in the affricates /pf, ts/) (Nartey 1979: 17).