Assimilation of voice in Dutch as a function of stress, word boundaries, and sex of speaker and listener

Slis, I.H.

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“…( The actual phonetic facts are acknowledged to be far more complex and varied than such transcription-based examples suggest (see e.g. Slis 1986 for careful experimental phonetic work on Dutch), and there are complications that arise from a general tendency to devoice in coda position in both languages, but it does appear that there is a genuine difference in voicing assimilation behaviour between Dutch and German. This is only one of many cross-linguistic differences that go unexplained in any descriptive system, such as that proposed in the Sound Pattern of English (Chomsky and Halle 1968), that treats all two-way laryngeal contrasts in terms of a single feature [±voice].…”

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Effects of obstruent voicing on vowel F0: Implications for laryngeal realism

Kirby

Ladd

2018

Yearbook of the Poznan Linguistic Meeting

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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 French, the phonologically relevant feature is argued to be [voice], while in languages of the second type, such as German, the relevant feature is argued to be [spread glottis]. A crucial assumption of this position is that the presence of certain contextually stable phonetic cues, namely voicing lead or lag, can be used to diagnose the which feature is phono-logically active. In this paper, we present data on obstruent-intrinsic F0 perturbations (CF0) in two [voice] languages, French and Italian. Voiceless obstruents in both languages are found to raise F0, while F0 following (pre)voiced obstruents patterns together with sonorants, similar to the voiceless unaspirated stops of [spread glottis] languages like German and English. The contextual stability of this cue implies that an active de-voicing gesture is common to languages of both the [voice] and [spread glottis] types, and undermines the idea that a strict binary dichotomy between true voicing and aspirating languages can be reliably inferred based on properties of the surface phonetics.

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Section: Introduction: the Problem With [±Voice]mentioning

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Effects of obstruent voicing on vowel F0: Implications for laryngeal realism

Kirby

Ladd

2018

Yearbook of the Poznan Linguistic Meeting

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“…Voicing ratios were then calculated as a ratio of duration of voicing to closure duration. Following Slis (1986), phonetic voicing of C1 stops was established using a cut-off point at the "mean + 2 standard deviations" value for voicing ratio in underlying voiceless stops in the environment where no voicing is expected, i.e before vowels and voiceless C2 stops. Therefore, stops with a voicing ratio equal to or lower than 52% were considered voiceless.…”

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Voicing and voice assimilation in Russian stops

Kulikov¹

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The main objective of this thesis is to investigate acoustic cues for the voicing contrast in stops in Russian for effects of speaking rate and phonetic environment. Although the laryngeal contrast in Russian is assumed to be a [voice] contrast, very few experimental studies have looked at the acoustic properties of Russian voiced and voiceless stops. Most claims about acoustic properties of stops and phonological processes that affect them (voice assimilation and final devoicing) have been made based on impressionistic transcriptions. The present study provides evidence that (1) voicing in voiced stops is affected by speaking rate manipulation, (2) stops in Russian retain underlying voicing specification in presonorant position and voice assimilation occurs only in obstruent clusters, and (3) phonological processes of voice assimilation and final devoicing do not result in complete neutralization. The target of the investigation is voiced and voiceless intervocalic stops, stops in clusters, and final stops in different prosodic positions within a word and at the phrase level. The acoustic cues to voicing (duration of voicing, stop closure duration, vowel duration, f0, and F1) were measured from the production data of 14 monolingual speakers of Russian recorded in Russia. Speakers produced words and phrases with target stops in three speaking rate conditions: list reading, slow rate and fast rate. The data were analyzed in 5 blocks focusing on (1) word-internal stops, (2) voice assimilation in stops in prepositions, (3) cases of so-called "sonorant transparency", (4) voice assimilation in stops before /v/, and (5) voicing processes across a word boundary. The results of the study present a challenge to the widely-held assumption that phonological processes precede phonetic processes at the phonology-phonetics interface. It is shown that the underlying contrast leaves traces on assimilated and devoiced stops. To account for the findings, a phonology-phonetics interface that allows interaction between the modules is required. In addition, the results show that temporal cues are I would also like to express my thanks to my fellow graduate students in the

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“…as mentioned above, voicing in fricatives has been much less often investigated than voicing in stops. the main studies on the sonority of fricatives are Stevens et al (1992) and Docherty (1992) for english;löfqvist & Mcgarr (1987) and Mcgarr & löfqvist (1988) for Swedish and Icelandic;hutters (1984) and Slis (1986) for Danish; Burton & Robblee (1997) for Russian; Snoeren & Segui (2003) for French; and finally kleśta (1999) for polish.…”

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Sonority effects in the production of fricative + sonorant clusters in polish

Castellví

Szmidt

2015

Lingua Posnaniensis

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joan Castellví, Dorota t. Szmidt. Sonority effects in the production of fricative + sonorant clusters in Polish. the poznań Society for the advancement of the arts and Sciences. pl ISSn 0079-4740, ISBn 978-83-7654-384-0, pp. 41-57 this paper presents the results of a phonetic study on the occurrence of transition elements in polish fricative + nasal clusters. an acoustic study was carried out using the CSl system, with simultaneous observation of the waveform, spectrograph, glottal waveform and glottal pulses. the results reveal differences in glottal activity depending on place of articulation of the fricative and in its duration with respect to the extent of glottal vibration. Differences in the glottal activity pattern and the transition elements between the fricative and the nasal were also observed. In the fricative-nasal limit three phenomena were found: a voiceless interval, a voiced interval and the absence of any transition element. It was also observed that the occurrence and the characteristics of the transition interval depend on the place of articulation of the fricative.

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Assimilation of voice in Dutch as a function of stress, word boundaries, and sex of speaker and listener

Cited by 40 publications

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Effects of obstruent voicing on vowel F0: Implications for laryngeal realism

Effects of obstruent voicing on vowel F0: Implications for laryngeal realism

Voicing and voice assimilation in Russian stops

Sonority effects in the production of fricative + sonorant clusters in polish

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