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About: Voice is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2393 publications have been published within this topic receiving 56637 citations.


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TL;DR: New experimental evidence that people learn phonological alternations in a biased way is provided, taking as evidence that learners have a soft bias, considering alternations between perceptually similar sounds to be more likely.

54 citations

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TL;DR: Use of the data from a single standardized test of articulation or phonology would not be sufficient for completely inventorying a child's consonant and vowel production and selecting targets for therapy, and it is recommended that clinicians supplement test data by probing production in additional phonetically controlled words.
Abstract: Purpose This report considered the validity of making conclusions about a child’s phonetic inventory (the sounds a child can and cannot produce spontaneously without a prior model or other stimulat...

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TL;DR: Acoustic analyses indicated that the native Germans showed more evidence of a final voicing distinction when producing English words than for phonologically similar German words, but native Germans typically produced fewer or less robust acoustic cues to word-final voicing when speaking English than the native English speakers did.

53 citations

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01 Jan 1980
TL;DR: The authors presented a cross-linguistic perspective of the aspects of the acquisition of stop systems and discussed the characteristics of speech-sound production during the age range that begins with the child's use of words and concludes with the age at which the child acquires an adult-like representation.
Abstract: Publisher Summary This chapter presents a cross-linguistic perspective of the aspects of the acquisition of stop systems. It also discusses the characteristics of speech-sound production during the age range that begins with the child's use of words and concludes with the age at which the child acquires an adult-like representation. There are remarkable differences between children acquiring the same language. A universal phonetic principle can explain both the acquisition data and the asymmetries in the utilization of a contrast in the adult language. The voicing contrast is first acquired at the labial place of articulation in Spanish but at the dental place in English, and the voicing contrast next appears at the velar place of articulation in Spanish but at the labial place in English. Languages can differ in the ways in which phonological contrasts are utilized in the lexicon.

53 citations

01 Jan 1996
TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that a segment phonetically realized as a voiced bilabial stop (b) may arise from several distinct phonological representations (i.e., it may be a laryngeally voiced sound, involving the activation of the feature (voice), a dependent of the Laryngeal node in the segmental tree.
Abstract: In this thesis the representation of voicing contrasts is explored. The central claim of the thesis is that voicing contrasts that are phonetically similar can arise from several distinct phonological representations. For example, it is argued that a segment phonetically realized as voiced bilabial stop ( (b)) may arise from several distinct phonological representations. This segment may be a laryngeally voiced sound, involving the activation of the feature (voice), a dependent of the Laryngeal node in the segmental tree. On the other hand, it may also be a sonorant sound, resulting from the activation of the SV (Sonorant Voicing) node in the segmental tree, a node that is argued to be distinct from the Laryngeal node. As well, there is a third possible representational source for this segment: it may be the result of what I term 'contextual voicing'. A contextually voiced segment is one that has neither a Laryngeal node nor an SV node. Such segments generally surface as voiced when surrounded by other voiced sounds. In the first two chapters, I outline the theory of SV sounds and a theory of enhancement that allows for minimal specification at the underlying level. In chapter three, I present a typology of laryngeal systems, arguing that the number of different laryngeal systems found in the languages of the world is constrained by the organization of features under the Laryngeal node. In chapters 4 and 5, I present empirical support for the model of segment structure presented in the first three chapters. A variety of languages that show within-sonorant assimilations are analyzed. As well, some problematic laryngeal systems (in particular, Dutch and Turkish) are explored and it is shown that the theory allows for fresh insights into systems in which the stops and the fricatives behave differently with respect to processes involving voicing. In the concluding chapter an analysis of a variety of consonantal alternations in Northern Turkic languages is presented. Here we see strong support for all aspects of the theory presented in the preceding chapters.

53 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
2023102
2022248
202156
202073
201981
201888