ABSTRACT
Debuccalization is the loss of primary supraglottal articulation with retention of, or replacement by, a glottal gesture such as [h] or [ʔ]. This process has been called by various names (some of which apply only to ejectives, or to fricatives), including: aspiration (Goldsmith 1981, Lipski 1984), dearticulation (Durand 1987, 1990), deobstruentization (Straight 1976), demoralization (Lass 1984), ejective reduction (Moshinksy 1974), glottal formation ( Hayes 1986a ), glottaling (J. Harris 1994), glottal replacement (Gimson 1970, Roach 1979), the unfortunately and confusingly named laryngeal neutralization (McCarthy 1989), modular depotentiation (Foley 1977) 1 , omission (Boas and Deloria 1941), oral depletion (Trigo 1988, 1991) and unbonding (Dunn and Hays 1983), as well as more general terms such as lenition and weakening (Hock 1986, Ferguson 1990). The most common term now, however, is debuccalization (coined by the late Robert Hetzron 1972:65 2 ), which McCarthy (1988) has resuscitated and which has since been adopted in most recent autosegmental literature (e.g. Harris 1990, Kenstowicz 1994, Roca 1994, Clements and Hume 1995).
