This ranking is also attested in Hall et al.'s (2006) experimental study with German and Polish alveolar stop-high vocoid sequences in nonce words, in which the friction phase in /dj/ sequences was significantly longer than that in /di/ sequences.
This article examines stop assibilations--defined here as processes that convert a (coronal) stop to a sibilant affricate or fricative before high vocoids, e.g., /t/ is realized as [ts] or [s] before /i/.
Stop assibilations (or assibilations for short) are defined here as processes whereby stops become sibilant affricates or sibilant fricatives before high vocoids. Three examples of such rules have been presented in (1).
the trigger is some subset of the high front vocoids (i.e., /i j/)
In (3a) we have presented an example of a language in which assibilation is not triggered by a subset of the high front vocoids. The process in (3b) is the only example to our knowledge of a process in which a nonsibilant fricative is the output.
Recall from (2a) that the trigger for stop assibilation is some set of the high front vocoids (i.e., the vowel /i/ and glide /j/).
High-ranking SYLL-WELL forces the simplification of complex nuclei and *P/[Alpha] favors the preservation of the vocoid of higher sonority; the most harmonic peak, (35b).
that must be simplified in TF in order to abide by *COMPLEX, a member of SYLL-WELL.(10) Considering that the feature [-anterior] of the high vocoid is preserved by the TF correspondent of the consonant that precedes it (e.g.
(10.) As was shown above, complex nuclei must be simplified through the deletion of the less-sonorous vocoid of the diphthong since this enables the violation of a lower-ranking antipeak constraint.
*COMPLEX, on the other hand, prohibits clusters, of both consonants and vocoids, under a syllable position node.