Articulatory coordination and the syllabification of word initial consonant clusters in Italian

Hermes, Anne; Grice, Martine; Mücke, Doris; Niemann, Henrik

doi:10.1515/9781614510772.157

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“…One could say that a leftward shift is found if the vowel is /e/, a rightward shift is found if the vowel is a low one (with the exception of /ps/), and no shift is found if the vowel is /i/. With regard to the /i/-/e/ contrast, the results of this study are comparable to the prema-prima contrast in Hermes et al (2008): the prevocalic consonant is more likely to shift towards the vowel if the vowel is an /i/ than if it is an /e/. What differs in the two studies is the absolute values.…”

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“…Browman and Goldstein (1988), Honorof and Browman (1995), and Goldstein et al (2009) found a C-center effect for /sp/ in English, and Marin and Pouplier (2010) found one for /sk/ and /sp/ in English. Importantly, no C-center effect was observed for French /sp/ (Tilsen et al 2012) or Italian /sp/ (Hermes et al 2008), and we suggest that this is because French and Italian voiceless stops are frequently unaspirated.…”

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“…Without knowing the exact vocalic and consonantal positions measured in previous studies, it is difficult to generalize; however, what can be said is that in the data used in earlier studies, a dependence on the vowel height can be observed as well. Hermes et al (2008) for example, found a C-center effect in Italian rima-prima, but in rema-prema the effect was less clear. The reason for that could Brought to you by | MIT Libraries Authenticated Download Date | 5/11/18 3:15 PM be that the jaw, and possibly also the tongue, is higher during /r/ in prima and prema than in rima and rema because of the bilabial, which is produced with a high jaw.…”

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“…For one of the speakers, vowel compression in the cluster item was found; for the other speaker, however, the vowel duration stayed constant. Hermes et al (2008) investigated the timing of onset consonants in two Italian speakers. Italian has been characterized as a language allowing complex onsets such as /pr/ but having extrasyllabic /s/ ('impure /s/') in clusters such as Brought to you by | MIT Libraries Authenticated Download Date | 5/11/18 3:15 PM /spl/ where a sonority reversal occurs.…”

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Timing of German onset and word boundary clusters

Brunner

Geng

Sotiropoulou

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Laboratory Phonology

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Previous studies suggest that there are special timing relations in syllable onsets. The consonants are assumed to be timed, on the one hand, with the vocalic nucleus and, on the other hand, with each other. These competing timing relations result in the C-center effect. However, the C-center effect has not consistently been found in languages with complex onsets. Moreover, it has occasionally been found in languages disallowing complex onsets. The present study investigates onset timing in German while discussing alternative explanations (not related to bonding) for the timing patterns observed. Six German speakers were recorded via Electromagnetic Articulography. The corpus contained items with four clusters (/sk/, /kv/, /gl/, and /pl/). The clusters occur in word-initial position, word-medial position, and across a word boundary preceding different vowels. The results suggest that segmental properties (i.e., oral-laryngeal coordination, coarticulatory resistance) determine the observed timing patterns, and specifically the absence or presence of the C-center effect.

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Timing of German onset and word boundary clusters

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Geng

Sotiropoulou

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Laboratory Phonology

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“…Tracing the phonetic correlates of syllable structure in articulatory and acoustic records of speech has proven difficult (cf. Krakow, 1999 for an overview), yet some headway has been made in work focusing on differences in the temporal coordination of articulatory gestures in onset and coda position (Browman & Goldstein, 1988;Byrd, 1995;Gick, 2003;Giles & Moll, 1975;Goldstein, Nam, Saltzman, & Chitoran, 2008;Hermes, Grice, Mücke, & Niemann, 2008;Honorof & Browman, 1995;de Jong, 2003;Krakow, 1993;Shaw, Gafos, Hoole, & Zeroual, 2009;Sproat & Fujimura, 1993). This work has shown that both consonant-vowel timing and consonant-consonant timing in clusters differ in onset and coda position.…”

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Temporal Organization of Complex Onsets and Codas in American English: Testing the Predictions of a Gestural Coupling Model

Marin¹,

Pouplier

2010

Motor Control

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This study systematically investigates the temporal organization of American English onset and coda consonant clusters on the basis of kinematic data. Results from seven speakers suggest that consonants in complex onsets are organized globally with respect to the following vowel, while consonants in complex codas are organized locally relative to the preceding vowel. These results support the competitive coupling model hypothesized for complex onsets, a model according to which consonant gestures in onsets are each coupled in-phase to the vowel, and antiphase with each other. The results are overall also consistent with the noncompetitive coupling relations assumed for codas, by which only the first consonant in a cluster is coupled antiphase with the vowel, and any subsequent consonants are coupled antiphase to each other. However, our data also show that the segmental composition of the cluster affects the timing relationship in codas, particularly /lC/ coda clusters pattern differently from other clusters and do not adhere to the predicted timing relations. The data contribute to our understanding of the interaction of linguistic structure and motor control of the articulators in speech production.

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