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01 Jan 2005
TL;DR: This paper addresses claims that Kera voiced ('depressor') consonants lower the tone of the following syllable, and shows that the controversial account of voice spreading is no longer necessary as the facts can be adequately accounted for by tone spreading, and by voice onset times that correspond to the tone.
Abstract: Kera (a Chadic language) has been cited as one of a handful of languages which exhibit long distance voicing harmony between consonants (Rose and Walker 2001, Odden 1994). It has also been claimed that Kera voiced ('depressor') consonants lower the tone of the following syllable (Ebert 1979, Wolff 1987a, Pearce 1998). This paper addresses both of these claims, showing with recordings, pitch tracks and acoustic measurements that although the synchronic phonology includes consonant and tone interaction, it is the tones that are underlying and distinct. It also shows that the controversial account of voice spreading is no longer necessary as the facts can be adequately accounted for by tone spreading, and by voice onset times that correspond to the tone.
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01 Jan 2003
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01 Jan 2003TL;DR: In this paper, the kinematics of the tongue tip and jaw as well as the tongue-palate contact patterns were investigated for four German subjects to study the involvement of supralaryngeal move-ments in the production of the voicing contrast.
Abstract: Except for cavity enlargement strategies there is not much consensus about the involvement of supralaryngeal move-ments in the production of the voicing contrast. In order to study supralaryngeal stop production mechanisms we in-vestigated the kinematics of tongue tip and jaw as well as tongue-palate contact patterns for four German subjects. We took alveolar stops in word medial (Cm) and word final position (Cf) into account. Results from Cm provide evidence that even though acoustic results exhibited consistently a longer closure duration for the voiceless stops, speaker-dependent articulatory mechanisms were involved. In word final position the rule of final devoicing applies in German, i.e. voiced stops are neutralised to voiceless. Results from acoustics and EPG generally showed complete neutralisation, but some differences, par-ticularly in jaw position at the consonantal target and in tongue-jaw coordination, are still maintained.
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TL;DR: The data overall do not allow using (a lack of) accommodation as a diagnostic as to the processing level at which an error has occurred, and support speech production models that allow for an integrated view of phonological and phonetic processing.
Abstract: Purpose Phonetic accommodation in speech errors has traditionally been used to identify the processing level at which an error has occurred. Recent studies have challenged the view that noncanonica...
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TL;DR: In this paper, a detailed description of the consonant system of Campidanese Sardinian is given and a semi-automated lenition analysis presented in this journal by Ennever, Meakins, and Round can be fruitfully extended to our corpus.
Abstract: This paper gives a detailed description of the consonant system of Campidanese Sardinian and makes methodological and theoretical contributions to the study of lenition. The data are drawn from a corpus of field recordings, including roughly 400 utterances produced by 15 speakers from the Trexenta and Western Campidanese areas. Campidanese has a complex lenition system that interacts with length, voicing, and manner contrasts. We show that the semi-automated lenition analysis presented in this journal by Ennever, Meakins, and Round can be fruitfully extended to our corpus, despite its much more heterogeneous set of materials in a genetically distant language. Intensity measurements from this method do not differ qualitatively from more traditional ones in their ability to detect lenition-fortition patterns, but do differ in interactions with stress. Lenition-fortition patterns reveal at least three levels of prosodic constituent in Campidanese, each of which is associated with medial lenition and initial fortition. Lenition affects all consonants and V-V transitions. It reduces duration, increases intensity, and probabilistically affects qualitative manner and voicing features in obstruents. Mediation analysis using regression modeling suggests that some intensity and most qualitative reflexes of lenition are explained by changes in duration, but not vice versa.
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