[intercepted]

Definition

Jakobson and Lotz (1949) describe [intercepted] phonemes to have a complete obstruction of the airstream.

Purpose

The feature [intercepted] was introduced to distinguish explosives from fricatives (Jakobson & Lotz 1949:430).

History

Jakobson and Lotz (1949) introduced [intercepted] in opposition to [continuous]. The opposition was quickly replaced by Jakobson, Fant, and Halle (1952) with [continuant] vs. [interrupted].

References

Jakobson, Roman; and John Lotz. 1949. Notes on the French phonemic pattern. Word 5.151-158. Reprinted in 1962 in Selected writings: Vol. 1: Phonological studies, ed. by Roman Jakobson, 426-434. ’S-Gravenhage: Mouton.

Jakobson, Roman; Gunnar Fant; and Morris Halle. 1952. Preliminaries to speech analysis: The distinctive features and their correlates. (MIT Acoustic Laboratory Technical Report 13). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 

Author

Ainsley Graf