A cross-linguistic acoustic study of voiceless fricatives

Gordon, Matthew; Barthmaier, Paul; Sands, Kathy

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“…The method yields values for sibilants that can indeed be as low as 2000 Hz or as high as 8000 Hz or more. As can be seen from inspecting their spectra and reported spectral means, Gordon et al (2002) apparently used the incorrect method of Ladefoged (2003) (Navarro Tomás 1932: 105-107, Harris 1969. This is illustrated in Fig.…”

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“…13 Erb. 8 Jongman et al (2000) report the values of 6133 and 4229 Hz respectively (for causes described in note 7 above, Gordon et al 2002 typically report differences of only 400 Hz between /s/ and /S/ for the languages they investigate). As noted above, measurement methods for spectral means have not yet been standardised and are therefore difficult to compare across sources.…”

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The evolution of auditory dispersion in bidirectional constraint grammars

Boersma

Hamann

2008

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This paper reconciles the standpoint that language users do not aim at improving their sound systems with the observation that languages seem to improve their sound systems. If learners optimise their perception by gradually ranking their cue constraints, and reuse the resulting ranking in production, they automatically introduce a PROTOTYPE EFFECT, which can be counteracted by an ARTICULATORY EFFECT. If the two effects are of unequal size, the learner will end up with a sound system auditorily different from that of her language environment. Computer simulations of sibilant inventories show that, independently of the initial auditory sound system, a stable equilibrium is reached within a small number of generations. In this stable state, the dispersion of the sibilants of the language strikes an optimal balance between articulatory ease and auditory contrast. Crucially, these results are derived within a model without any goal-oriented elements such as dispersion constraints.

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Section: Sibilant Inventories : Dispersion Of the Spectral Meanmentioning

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Section: The English Auditory Language Environmentmentioning

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The evolution of auditory dispersion in bidirectional constraint grammars

Boersma

Hamann

2008

Phonology

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“…Results [24]. More precisely, they find that the prepalatal sibilant /S/ in Chickasaw, Western Apache, Gaelic, Montana Salish, and Hupa has lower COG values than the alveolar sibilant /s/.…”

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Sibilant Merger in the Variety of Basque Spoken in Amorebieta-Etxano

Muxika-Loitzate

2017

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Abstract:Basque has an apico-alveolar /s "/, a lamino-alveolar /s «/, and a prepalatal sibilant /S/ that are represented by the letters , , and , respectively. The apico-alveolar and the lamino-alveolar sibilants have merged in some areas of Biscay, Guipuzcoa, and the Basque-speaking territories of Alava (e.g., Hualde 2010), and Spanish has been hypothesized as a factor driving this merger (Jurado Noriega 2011). On the other hand, complex sibilant systems like the traditional Basque one tend to be neutralized independently of language contact (Bukmaier et al. 2014). In order to add to this debate and shed new light on the merger, this study explored Biscayan Basque, a variety at an advanced state of the merger (Hualde 2010). More precisely, the study tested how the degree of bilingualism affects the production of the sibilants under study and the resulting neutralization by performing an acoustic analysis of the data. The results show that Basque-and Spanish-dominant speakers behave differently with regard to the sibilant merger, and that they have different places of articulation for their sibilants. Only Basque-dominant speakers maintain a significant distinction in the place of articulation of and overall, whereas Spanish-dominant speakers do not make a distinction among sibilants. Furthermore, the resulting merged sibilant is less fronted for Spanish-dominant speakers than the sibilants of Basque-dominant speakers.

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“…Spectral moments have been widely used in the literature (Jassem 1979;Forrest et al 1988;Ladefoged 2003, 156ff;Gordon et al 2005;Machač-Skarnitzl 2005) to quantify consonantal -in particular fricativecharacteristics, especially with the need to distinguish one fricative from the other, across vowel context and speaker. 39 The first spectral moment, CoG (or "centroid"), is a measure for how high the frequencies in a spectrum are on average, it thus represents a spectral mean.…”

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A phonetically-based approach to the phonology of [v] in Hungarian</o:p>
Kiss¹,
Bárkányi²
2006
Acta Linguistica Hungarica
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We propose a unified, surface-based functionalist analysis of the phonology of Hungarian v, which is shown to fare better than past generative formalist/ representational models. The model introduced can account for the two-fold patterning of v with respect to voicing assimilation without evoking exceptional means. Furthermore, it can also explain certain asymmetries as well as graduality displayed by v's phonotactic distribution, namely, that some clusters are more frequent in the lexicon, whereas others are marginal. The analysis is grounded in the aerodynamics of v's articulation (which involves inherently contradictory targets) as well as in the relative perceptibility of its contrast in various contexts. It is shown with the help of quantitative experiments that v's phonological patterning is directly derivable from these phonetic factors.

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A cross-linguistic acoustic study of voiceless fricatives

Cited by 187 publications

References 21 publications

The evolution of auditory dispersion in bidirectional constraint grammars

The evolution of auditory dispersion in bidirectional constraint grammars

Sibilant Merger in the Variety of Basque Spoken in Amorebieta-Etxano

A phonetically-based approach to the phonology of [v] in Hungarian</o:p>

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