Another R-tickle

Barry, William J.

doi:10.1017/s0025100300005405

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“…Trill production requires the vibration of a supralaryngeal articulator (e.g., tongue-tip, uvula, lips) caused by certain aerodynamic forces (Barry, 1997;Ladefoged & Maddieson, 1996;Spajić, Ladefoged & Bhaskararao, 1996). From an articulatory standpoint, the conditions for initiating tongue-tip trilling involve muscle contraction of the tongue to assume requirements in position, shape and elasticity.…”

Section: Trill Articulationmentioning

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Sociophonetic analysis of phonemic trill variation in two sub-varieties of Peninsular Spanish

Henriksen

2014

J. of Ling. Geography

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In this paper we provide a preliminary characterization of the phonemic trill (i.e., /r/) as produced by twenty-four speakers of northern and central Peninsular Spanish. The acoustic analysis revealed a considerable number of non-canonical variants containing one or zero apical occlusions. The quantitative results showed robust effects of the following three factors on trill articulation: Speaker dialect, gender, and preceding vowel. Regarding social factors, central Peninsular speakers and male speakers showed the greatest propensity to produce fewer occlusions per phonemic trill. Regarding linguistic factors, non-canonical variants were especially common in contexts of preceding /u/; we interpret this result on articulatory grounds given the antagonistic gestures required for the trill and the high back vowel. All in all, these findings offer empirical support that geographically-oriented studies within a sociophonetic framework offer critical information on the diachrony of trill consonants.

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Section: Trill Articulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sociophonetic analysis of phonemic trill variation in two sub-varieties of Peninsular Spanish

Henriksen

2014

J. of Ling. Geography

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“…As trills they are in contrast with other coronal segments that have a different manner of articulation, and additionally, there is a secondary place of articulation contrast between palatalized and non-palatalized trills. As trills, they require complex conditioning of the tongue tissue to adjust tension and inertia of the part of the tongue that vibrates and the pressure and flow conditions required for the tissue-flow coupling that is necessary for vibration (McGowan, 1989; Solé, 2002a,b; Barry, 1997). Due to the involvement of Russian trills in a primary and secondary contrast, and to the articulatory and aerodynamic complexity of trills, two independent factors, it may be expected that these trills should exhibit little phonetic variability, since such variability could lead to phonetic similarity between the trills and coronal segments they contrast with.…”

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confidence: 99%

The interaction between contrast, prosody, and coarticulation in structuring phonetic variability

Iskarous

Kavitskaya

2010

Journal of Phonetics

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Russian maintains a contrast between non-palatalized and palatalized trills that has been lost in most Slavic languages. This research investigates the phonetic expression of this contrast in an attempt to understand how the contrast is maintained. One hypothesis is that the contrast is stabilized through resistance to coarticulation between the trill and surrounding vowels and prosodic positional weakening effects-factors expected to weaken the contrast. In order to test this hypothesis, we investigate intrasegmental and intersegmental coarticulation and the effect of domain boundaries on Russian trills. Since trills are highly demanding articulatorily and aerodynamically, and since Russian trills are in contrast, there is an expectation that they will be highly resistant to coarticulation and to prosodic influence. This study shows, however, that phonetic variability due to domain boundaries and coarticulation is systematically present in Russian trills. Implications of the relation between prosodic position and lingual coarticulation for the Degree of Articulatory Constraint (DAC) model, Articulatory Phonology, and the literature on prosodic strength are discussed. Based on the quantitative analysis of phonetic variability in Russian trills, we conjecture a hypothesis on why the contrast in trills is maintained in Russian, but lost in other Slavic languages. Specifically, phonological strategies used by several Slavic languages to deal with the instability of Proto-Slavic palatalized trills are present phonetically in Russian. These phonetic tendencies structure the variability of Russian trills, and could be the source of contrast stabilization.

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“…Much work has been conducted on establishing a class of rhotics cross-linguistically [Lindau, 1985;Ladefoged and Maddieson, 1996;Barry, 1997;Catford, 2001]. Because of the variability in the articulatory and acoustic properties of rhotics, it is not a straightforward task to group them together on purely phonetic grounds.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Parametric Approach to the Phonetics of Postvocalic /r/ in Dutch

Plug¹,

Ogden²

2003

Phonetica

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This paper describes the phonetic exponents of rhoticity in postvocalic position in the speech of 4 young adult speakers of Standard Dutch. In addition to describing aspects of the segmental realisation of /r/, the paper focusses on parametric differences between rhymes with and without postvocalic /r/ in the material under consideration, presenting both impressionistic observations and instrumental measurements. Results of the investigation suggest that parametric analysis is a crucial complement to segmental classification, in providing insights into the relation between segmental realisations and ‘contextual effects’ of /r/, the phonetics of /r/ deletion and similarities and differences between rhotics cross-linguistically.

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Another R-tickle

Cited by 42 publications

References 13 publications

Sociophonetic analysis of phonemic trill variation in two sub-varieties of Peninsular Spanish

Sociophonetic analysis of phonemic trill variation in two sub-varieties of Peninsular Spanish

The interaction between contrast, prosody, and coarticulation in structuring phonetic variability

A Parametric Approach to the Phonetics of Postvocalic /r/ in Dutch

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