TY - JOUR TI - A World without Voiced Sonorants: Reflections on Cyran 2014 (Part 1) AU - Scheer, Tobias TI - A World without Voiced Sonorants: Reflections on Cyran 2014 (Part 1) AB - The article discusses the theory of laryngeal phonology exposed in Cyran (2014), Laryngeal Relativism. The basic assumption of this approach is that sonorants and vowels never bear phonological specifications for voicing: their voicing is only ever phonetic in nature. Therefore phonetic interpretation, i.e. spell-out of the output of phonology into phonetic categories, is central: this is where phonetic voicing leaks into neighbouring segments. In the first part of the article, the generative power of Laryngeal Relativism is evaluated, and its workings are compared with previous analyses. The impact of substance-free primes is also discussed. VL - Volume 10 (2015) IS - Vol. 10, Issue 3 PY - 2016 SN - 1732-8160 C1 - 2300-5920 SP - 125 EP - 151 DO - 10.4467/23005920SPL.15.006.4314 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studies-in-polish-linguistics/article/a-world-without-voiced-sonorants-reflections-on-cyran-2014-part-1 KW - Laryngeal Realism KW - Laryngeal Relativism KW - sonorant voicing KW - post-phonological spell-out KW - substance-free primes KW - Polish