@article{oai:u-ryukyu.repo.nii.ac.jp:02002300, author = {石原, 昌英 and Ishihara, Masahide}, issue = {42}, journal = {琉球大学欧米文化論集 = Ryudai Review of Euro-American Studies}, month = {Dec}, note = {This paper presents an argument against the claim made by Mester and Ito (1989) and Lombardi (1991, 1995) that feature [voiced] is privative. Based on an analysis of the appearance of /p/ in words such as assumption and redemption, I argue that the feature is binary. That is, [-voiced] should be present and active in the lexical phonology of English. I also show that, in addition to the emergence of the voiceless bilabial stop, the leftward spreading of a Laryngeal Node dominating [-voiced] causes devoicing of both /b/ and /v/ as well as despirantization in words like description and reception. I also argue that devoicing of the plural suffix after a voiceless obstruent is due to a spreading of a Laryngeal Node dominating [-voiced]. It is not due to a constraint which requires a tautosyllablic sequence of obstruents have the same value of the [voiced] feature., 紀要論文}, pages = {1--19}, title = {英語における「声の同化」について}, year = {1997} }