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A replicable acoustic measure of lenition and the nature of variability in Gurindji stops Open
An automated method is presented for the commensurable, reproducible measurement of duration and lenition of segment types ranging from fully occluded stops to highly lenited variants, in acoustic data. The method is motivated with respect…
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Nasal consonants, sonority and syllable phonotactics: the dual nasal hypothesis Open
We investigate the phonotactic behaviour of nasal consonants in a database of over 200 languages. Our findings challenge the common classification of nasals as intermediate between obstruents and liquids on the sonority hierarchy. Instead,…
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Voice onset time and beyond: Exploring laryngeal contrast in 19 languages Open
In this special collection entitled Marking 50 Years of Research on Voice Onset Time and the Voicing Contrast in the World's Languages, we have compiled eleven studies investigating the voicing contrast in 19 languages. The collection prov…
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Linking Variation in Perception and Production in Sound Change: Evidence from Dutch Obstruent Devoicing Open
This study investigates the link between the perception and production in sound change in progress, both at the regional and the individual level. Two devoicing processes showing regional variation in Dutch are studied: the devoicing of in…
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Transphonologization of voicing in Chru: Studies in production and perception Open
Chru, a Chamic language of south-central Vietnam, has been described as combining contrastive obstruent voicing with incipient registral properties (Fuller, 1977). A production study reveals that obstruent voicing has already become option…
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A phonological reconstruction of proto-kawapanan Open
This paper aims to provide a full diachronic account of the segmental correspondences between two extant Kawapanan languages of Peruvian Amazonia, Shawi and Shiwilu. I put forward a reconstruction of the phonological system of Proto-Kawapa…
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Effects of obstruent voicing on vowel <i>F</i>0: Evidence from “true voicing” languages Open
This study investigates consonant-related F0 perturbations (“CF0”) in French and Italian by comparing the effects of voiced and voiceless obstruents on F0 to those of voiced sonorants. The voiceless obstruents /p f/ in both languages are f…
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Sound Symbolic Patterns in Pokémon Names Open
This paper presents a case study of sound symbolism, cases in which certain sounds tend to be associated with particular meanings. We used the corpus of all Japanese Pokémon names available as of October 2016. We tested the effects of voic…
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Phonological and phonetic properties of nasal substitution in Sasak and Javanese Open
Austronesian languages such as Sasak and Javanese have a pattern of morphological nasal substitution, where nasals alternate with homorganic oral obstruents—except that [s] is described as alternating with [ɲ], not with [n]. This appears t…
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The Relationship Between Relative Fundamental Frequency and a Kinematic Estimate of Laryngeal Stiffness in Healthy Adults Open
Purpose This study examined the relationship between the acoustic measure relative fundamental frequency (RFF) and a kinematic estimate of laryngeal stiffness. Method Twelve healthy adults (mean age = 22.7 years, SD = 4.4; 10 women, 2 men)…
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Early phonetic learning without phonetic categories -- Insights from large-scale simulations on realistic input Open
Before they even speak, infants become attuned to the sounds of the language(s) they hear, processing native phonetic contrasts more easily than non-native ones. For example, between 6-8 months and 10-12 months, infants learning American E…
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Prenasalized and postoralized consonants: The diverse functions of enhancement Open
We propose that contour nasals come from two principal sources. One source, articulatorily driven, comes from underlying voiced stops, as nasal venting in order to sustain voicing. The other, perceptually driven, comes from underlying nasa…
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Harsh voices, sound branding: How voiced consonants in a brand's name can alter its perceived attributes Open
This paper examines the sound‐symbolic link between voiced obstruents (speech sounds created by obstructing the airflow) present in a brand name and the perceived product/brand attributes. In three studies (two using self‐reported measures…
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What role does the palate play in speech motor control? Insights from tongue kinematics for German alveolar obstruents Open
The tongue moves in a narrow space which influences the speech planning process and affects the kinematic properties of the movement. In order to study the possible role of tongue-palate interaction we investigated tongue tip movement toge…
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The passive voice in ancient Indo-European languages: inflection, derivation, periphrastic verb forms Open
The IE languages developed different strategies for the encoding of the passive function. In some language branches, the middle voice extended to the passive function to varying extents. In addition, dedicated derivational formations arose…
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Prevoicing and Aspiration in Southern American English Open
This paper reports on an investigation of voicing and aspiration of stops in Southern American English (SAE) and discusses theoretical implications of the findings for the features of contrast in SAE.\nLanguages that have a two-way stop co…
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Takete and Maluma in Action: A Cross-Modal Relationship between Gestures and Sounds Open
Despite Saussure's famous observation that sound-meaning relationships are in principle arbitrary, we now have a substantial body of evidence that sounds themselves can have meanings, patterns often referred to as "sound symbolism". Previo…
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Planting the seed for sound change: Evidence from real-time MRI of velum kinematics in German Open
Velum movement signals generated from real-time magnetic resonance imaging videos of thirty-five German speakers were used to investigate the physiological conditions that might promote sound change involving the development of contrastive…
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Single-cell activity in human STG during perception of phonemes is organized according to manner of articulation Open
One of the central tasks of the human auditory system is to extract sound features from incoming acoustic signals that are most critical for speech perception. Specifically, phonological features and phonemes are the building blocks for mo…
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The phonetics and phonology of lenition: A Campidanese Sardinian case study Open
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 rough…
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Phonological cross-linguistic influence at the initial stages of L3 acquisition Open
This study investigates sources of phonological cross-linguistic influence (CLI) at the initial stages of third language (L3) acquisition in light of the predictions of the second language (L2) Status Factor Model, the Typological Primacy …
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When <i>blue</i> is a disyllabic word: Perceptual epenthesis in the mental lexicon of second language learners Open
Word-initial obstruent-liquid clusters, frequent in English (e.g., blue ), are prohibited in Korean. Korean learners of English perceptually repair illicit word-initial consonant sequences with an epenthetic vowel [ʊ]. Thus they might perc…
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Effects of obstruent voicing on vowel F0: Implications for laryngeal realism Open
It is sometimes argued that languages with two-way laryngeal contrasts can be classified according to whether one series is realized canonically with voicing lead or the other with voicing lag. In languages of the first type, such as Frenc…
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Physical and phonological causes of coda /t/ glottalization in the mainstream American English of central Ohio Open
In American English, a glottal stop is sometimes pronounced in place of an expected syllable coda /t/, and audible glottalization is attested before both /t/ and /p/ in coda position. Following previous work, we claim that the voiceless st…
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Laryngeal contrasts in the Tai dialect of Cao Bằng Open
The Tai dialect spoken in Cao Bằng province, Vietnam, is at an intermediate stage between tonal register split and the accompanying transphonologization of a voicing contrast into a dual-register tone system. While the initial sonorants ha…
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A time course of prosodic modulation in phonological inferencing: The case of Korean post-obstruent tensing Open
Application of a phonological rule is often conditioned by prosodic structure, which may create a potential perceptual ambiguity, calling for phonological inferencing. Three eye-tracking experiments were conducted to examine how spoken wor…
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Pre-aspiration and the problem of zeroes: Phonological rules can be variable Open
Pre-aspiration can be defi ned as a period of glottal friction, [h], which is found in the sequences of sonorants and phonetically voiceless obstruents, as in map [ma h p h ] (e.g. in Welsh English, Hejná 2015).This chapter problematises t…
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Cross-Linguistic Interactions in Third Language Acquisition: Evidence from Multi-Feature Analysis of Speech Perception Open
Research on third language (L3) phonological acquisition has shown that Cross-Linguistic Influence (CLI) plays a role not only in forming the newly acquired language but also in reshaping the previously established ones. Only a few studies…
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Velar palatalization in Slovenian: Local and long-distance interactions in a derived environment effect Open
Slovenian velar palatalization has been described as a morphologically and lexically restricted, variable derived environment effect. This paper presents a corpus-based study that for the first time also considers synchronic phonological f…
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Sound change and coarticulatory variability involving English /ɹ/ Open
English /ɹ/ is known to exhibit covert variability, with tongue postures ranging from bunched to retroflex, as well as various degrees of lip protrusion and compression. Because of its articulatory variability, /ɹ/ is often a focal point f…