*FF as a Phonotactic Constraint in English: Evidence from an Acoustic Study
The article presents an empirical study on the laryngeal pattern of English obstruents in ‘voiceless’ obstruent clusters (VOCs) in light of Szigetvári’s (2020) *FortisFortis (*FF) phonotactic claim, which posits that adjacent fortis obstruents are prohibited within morphemes due to articulatory constraints. Using acous...