Complexity in phonetics and phonology: gradience, categoriality, and naturalness

Chițoran, Ioana; Cohn, Abigail C.

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“…Objective measures of complexity for providing the “ground truth” of our measures are difficult to find: although complexity can potentially be indexed motorically (cortical activation, number of muscle activations; Stavness, Gick, Derrick, & Fels, 2012), mathematically (Grassberger, 1986a, 1986b, 2012) and linguistically (Chitoran & Cohn, 2009), no definitions or scales exist for this particular purpose. Explicit discussions of articulatory complexity can be found in Kent (1992) and Stokes and Surendran (2005).…”

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Methods for quantifying tongue shape and complexity using ultrasound imaging

Dawson

Tiede

Whalen

2015

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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Quantification of tongue shape is potentially useful for indexing articulatory strategies arising from intervention, therapy and development. Tongue shape complexity is a parameter that can be used to reflect regional functional independence of the tongue musculature. This paper considers three different shape quantification methods – based on Procrustes analysis, curvature inflections, and Fourier coefficients – and uses a linear discriminant analysis to test how well each method is able to classify tongue shapes from different phonemes. Test data are taken from six native speakers of American English producing 15 phoneme types. Results classify tongue shapes accurately when combined across quantification methods. These methods hold promise for extending the use of ultrasound in clinical assessments of speech deficits.

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Methods for quantifying tongue shape and complexity using ultrasound imaging

Dawson

Tiede

Whalen

2015

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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“…Thus, from earlier phonological studies, gutturals can be seen as behaving as one group or one domain, which satisfies the first part of Chitoran and Cohn's (2009) and Flemming's (2001) unified model. In the next section, the second part of this model is addressed with my research on the phonetic changes in guttural-vowel coarticulation.…”

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“…Thus, the research presented in this paper aims to build on previous research by acoustically investigating the influence of guttural consonants on vowels in Saudi Arabic. Cohn (2007Cohn ( , 2009, Flemming (2001), and Keating (1996) investigated and discussed the challenge of the phonetic-phonology interface. They agreed that there is one domain in which phonetics and phonology are two distinct approaches that interface.…”

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The Influence of Guttural Consonants /χ/, /ħ/, and /h/ on Vowel /a/ in Saudi Arabic

Alsager¹

2019

IJEL

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This paper presents a comparative study which investigates the influence of Saudi Arabic guttural consonants /χ/, /ħ/ and /h/ on the vowel /a/ when they are adjacent and in the same syllable. Cohn (2007, 2009), Flemming (2001), and Keating (1996) discuss a unified model in which phonology and phonetics are treated as two distinct elements of one domain where each element has an effect on the other to some degree. McCarthy (1991, 1994), Rose (1996), Zawaydeh (1999, 2004), and BinMuqbil (2006) presented phonological studies on gutturals, as well as discussions on gutturals as a natural class, which uphold the phonological aspect of Cohn’s (2009) unified model. The aim of this study is to address the phonetic aspect of Cohn’s (2009) unified model by analyzing the phonetic effects of guttural-vowel coarticulation. An acoustic analysis method was used as a framework for this investigation to extract first formant frequency (F1) and second formant frequency (F2) to measure the influence in the coarticulation. For the purpose of this study, seven native Saudi Arabic speakers were recorded pronouncing 70 Saudi Arabic words. The results showed that guttural consonants have an influence on the vowel /a/ by lowering and backing it when they are adjacent and in the same syllable, while the vowel /a/ in the nonguttural consonants is raising and fronting their adjacent vowel /a/ in the same syllable in comparison with the vowel /a/ in the guttural environment.

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“…It is possible that relationships between alternations found in obstruent-sonorant-obstruent clusters and speaking rate are a legitimate result of a trade-off between the speaking rate and the complexity of syllable structure (see Chitoran & Cohn 2009 for discussion). Chitoran & Cohn suggest that syllable complexity correlates with speaking rate.…”

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Voicing contrast in consonant clusters: evidence against sonorant transparency to voice assimilation in Russian

Kulikov

2013

Phonology

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Obstruents in Russian have been claimed to assimilate in voicing in clusters when a sonorant consonant intervenes, e.g. ot mgly [dmg] ' from the haze '. This phenomenon ('sonorant transparency to voice assimilation ') is controversial : it is claimed to be a phonological rule of fast speech by some linguists, while its existence is denied by others. Previous studies have shown that voicing in presonorant obstruents (C1) in Russian is consistent with that of prevocalic obstruents in slow speech ; however, no research has examined whether voicing in presonorant obstruents changes either as a function of the voicing of the rightmost (C2) obstruent in a cluster or in faster speech. This paper presents experimental results supporting the claim that the voicing of C2 obstruents does not affect voicing in presonorant C1 obstruents in slow or fast speech. The results suggest that obstruents do not assimilate through a sonorant in obstruent-sonorant-obstruent clusters in Russian.

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Complexity in phonetics and phonology: gradience, categoriality, and naturalness

Cited by 13 publications

References 17 publications

Methods for quantifying tongue shape and complexity using ultrasound imaging

Methods for quantifying tongue shape and complexity using ultrasound imaging

The Influence of Guttural Consonants /χ/, /ħ/, and /h/ on Vowel /a/ in Saudi Arabic

Voicing contrast in consonant clusters: evidence against sonorant transparency to voice assimilation in Russian

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