Between Phonology and Phonetics: Polish Voicing (Studies in Generative Grammar)
For decades, the voicing system of Polish has been at the center of a heated theoretical debate concerning laryngeal phonology as it features a number of phenomena, such as Final Obstruent Devoicing, Regressive Voice Assimilation, Progressive Voice Assimilation, dialectally distributed external sandhi voicing in pre-sonorant context, and other instances of special behaviour of sonorants, leading to interesting cases of variation.
The active voice is used when the agent (i.e, the doer of the action) is to be made prominent. The passive voice is used when the person or thing acted upon is to be made prominent…
