A study of /J/ and /r/ in the light of the “DAC” coarticulation model

Recasens, Daniel; Pallarès, Maria Dolors

doi:10.1006/jpho.1999.0092

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“…Overall trill durations were taken to be the sum of the durations of the corresponding contact and opening periods. Contact onset and offset were identified at the first frame showing activation or deactivation, respectively, of at least one electrode located at the four central alveolar columns [Recasens and Pallarès, 1999]. If the rhotic exhibited no electrode activation in this area, consonant onset was taken to occur at the first frame showing some constriction narrowing towards the center of the alveolar zone and/or a significant decrease in formant amplitude or an F1 inflection on the spectrographic representations.…”

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“…This appears to be the case in Eastern Catalan where, in comparison with /ɾ/, /r/ is more posterior, and exhibits a higher F1 and a lower F2 (1,286-1,440 vs. 1,527-2,024 Hz) since it involves a lower predorsum and jaw and some dorsopharyngeal approximation, and a lower F3 (2,437 vs. 2,679 Hz) since it is articulated with a more retracted constriction [Recasens and Pallarès, 1999]. Moreover, trills are produced with a longer first contact than taps, exhibit more gestural anticipation during a preceding antagonistic front vowel, and are more resistant to coarticulatory vowel effects in constriction location and tongue body configuration.…”

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“…Trills appear to be front alveolar or postdental in Degema and South American Spanish dialects and postalveolar in Russian and Eastern Catalan, and alveolar taps are front or centroalveolar in Spanish and Eastern Catalan and perhaps more retracted in Greek [Fernández, 2000, p. 178;Gili Gaya, 1921, pp. 272-273;Lindau, 1985, p. 161;Nicolaidis, 2001, p. 74;Recasens and Pallarès, 1999]. Phonetic differences may also apply to the overall articulatory configuration and the spectral characteristics.…”

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Phonetic Typology and Positional Allophones for Alveolar Rhotics in Catalan

Recasens

Espinosa

2007

Phonetica

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The present study reports electropalatographic and acoustic data on the positional and contextual characteristics of alveolar taps and trills in Majorcan, Valencian and Eastern Catalan. The two consonant classes are invariably opposed by degree of tongue dorsum contact and F2, but only differentiated by place of articulation when constriction location for the trill is sufficiently retracted. Trills are produced with less than three contacts and may exhibit a single contact in utterance-initial position and, less often, in /Cr, VrV/ sequences. Word-final and, to a lesser extent, preconsonantal rhotics are implemented as taps in Majorcan and Valencian, and strengthened into trills in Eastern Catalan. Moreover, there appears to be an inverse relationship between initial strengthening, and intervocalic weakening and the absence of syllable-final strengthening, for Valencian rhotics, which could be indicative of a pattern of intersegmental organization. Shortening and articulatory reduction turned out not to be necessarily related for extremely short Valencian taps, which undergo much undershoot intervocalically but are highly constricted in /Cɾ , rC/ sequences. Other research aspects such as devoicing and intergestural timing for Catalan alveolar rhotics are also investigated.

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Phonetic Typology and Positional Allophones for Alveolar Rhotics in Catalan

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Espinosa

2007

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“…Yet in both sub-corpora there is a strong preference for [ɾɹ̝ ] to appear close to a high vowel: overall, 63 of the total 84 occurrences were close to /i/, 21 close to /u/. In articulatory terms, high vowels being produced with anterodorsum raising are notoriously antagonistic to trills (Recasens, 2012;Recasens & Pallarès, 1999;Solé, 2002), and they also induce large v-to-c coarticulatory effects on taps (e.g., Celata, Vietti, & Spreafico, in press;Recasens & Pallarès, 1999).…”

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The sociophonetics of rhotic variation in Sicilian dialects and Sicilian Italian: corpus, methodology and first results

Celata

Meluzzi

Ricci

2016

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Citation / Cómo citar este artículo: Celata, C., Meluzzi, C. and Ricci, I. (2016 ABSTRACT: SoPhISM (The SocioPhonetics of verbal Interaction: Sicilian Multimodal corpus) is an acoustic and articulatory sociophonetic corpus focused on whithin-speaker variation as a function of stylistic/communicative factors. The corpus is particularly intended for the study of rhotics as a sociolinguistic variable in the production of Sicilian speakers. Rhotics are analyzed according to the distinction between single-phase and multiple-phase rhotics along with the presence of constriction and aperture articulatory phases. Based on these parameters, the annotation protocol seeks to classify rhotic variants within a sufficiently granular, but internally consistent, phonetic perspective. The proposed descriptive parameters allow for the discussion of atypical realizations in terms of phonetic derivations (or simplifications) of typical closure-aperture sequences. The distribution of fricative variants in the speech repertoire of one speaker and his interlocutors shows the potential provided by SoPhISM for sociophonetic variation to be studied at the 'micro' level of individual speaker's idiolects.Keywords: rhotics; articulatory sociophonetics; phonetic annotation; coda /r/; Sicilian. RESUMEN: Sociofonética de la variación de las róticas en los dialectos sicilianos y en el italiano deSicilia: corpus, metodología y primeros resultados.-SoPhISM (SocioPhonetics of verbal Interaction: Sicilian Multimodal corpus) es un corpus sociofonético acústico y articulatorio centrado en la variación individual en función de la variedad de la lengua y de los factores estilísticos y comunicativos del habla. El corpus está concebido particularmente para el estudio de /r/ en cuanto variable sociolingüística en el habla italiana y dialectal de locutores sicilianos. Las róticas se analizan teniendo en cuenta la distinción entre monofásicas y multifásicas, y la presencia de fases de constricción y abertura. Sobre la base de estos parámetros, el protocolo de anotación intenta clasificar las variantes dentro de una perspectiva fonética suficientemente minuciosa y, al mismo tiempo, internamente coherente. Los parámetros descriptivos propuestos permiten discutir ciertas realizaciones atípicas como derivaciones fonéticas (o simplificaciones) de secuencias típicas de cierre-apertura. La distribución de las variantes fricativas en el repertorio de un hablante y de sus interlocutores muestra el potencial proporcionado por SoPhISM para el estudio de la variación sociofonética en el nivel "micro" de los idiolectos.Palabras clave: róticas; sociofonética articulatoria; anotación fonética; /r/ en coda; siciliano.

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“…However, let me suggest two possible phonetic explanations that could had been phonologized. On the one hand, the relatively slow gesture required for rhotics can create greater coarticulation effects between the vowel and the rhotic and lengthen the vowel as a result (Koen Sebregts p.c., Recasens and Pallarès 1999). On the other hand, in Riminese, all vowels preceding nasals are long (Hajek 1997).…”

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Length and voicing in Friulian and Milanese

Torres-Tamarit

2014

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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This paper claims that phonology should express the relationship between vowel length and obstruent voicing operationally rather than in parallel. The empirical focus in on Friulian and Milanese. The distribution of vowel length in Friulian is predictable from the underlying laryngeal specification of obstruents. Stressed vowels are long before underlyingly voiced word-final obstruents although they devoice. This situation creates opacity. In the light of the interaction between vowel lengthening and final devoicing, this paper argues in favor of Harmonic Serialism, a version of Optimality Theory that combines constraint ranking with serial derivations. I demonstrate that only in Harmonic Serialism does vowel length naturally follow from the independent need to satisfy NoVoicedCoda and FootBinarityµ, instead of assuming that vowel lengthening is the consequence of whether or not obstruents project a mora depending on their laryngeal specification. The facts of Milanese are also considered. Milanese patterns as Friulian except that final devoicing is not categorical. I use Serial Variation (Kimper 2011) to solve the problem of opacity and variation in the realization or not of final devoicing. An alternative approach to Milanese that assumes gradual devoicing is also suggested. This analysis combines Harmonic Serialism and turbid output representations (Goldrick 2001, van Oostendorp 2008, and allows us to express formally the difference between Friulian and Milanese in terms of categorical versus gradual devoicing.

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A study of /J/ and /r/ in the light of the “DAC” coarticulation model

Cited by 69 publications

References 11 publications

Phonetic Typology and Positional Allophones for Alveolar Rhotics in Catalan

Phonetic Typology and Positional Allophones for Alveolar Rhotics in Catalan

The sociophonetics of rhotic variation in Sicilian dialects and Sicilian Italian: corpus, methodology and first results

Length and voicing in Friulian and Milanese

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