Phonology and phonetics of Greek palatalisation

Abstract

The present investigation examines palatal production as well as the relation of phonology and phonetics in Greek. In accordance with one production experiment, the results indicate: (1) palatal productions that surface from one underlying segment are significantly longer than palatal productions that surface from two underlying segments, (2) palatal productions are voice assimilated with the preceding stop and fricative consonant production and, (3), the locus frequencies of male palatal productions are in the area of 1800-2000 Hz.