Effects of word position and flanking vowel on the implementation of glottal stop: Evidence from Hawaiian

Davidson, Lisa

doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2021.101075

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“…[10, cited by [11]]. For example, [12] and [13] (both cited by [14]) report that glottal stops are realised as stops 25% and 7% of the time in Arapaho and Hawaiian respectively, and either omitted (13% and 20% of the time respectively) or realised with a creaky voice otherwise (i.e. 62 and 73% of the time respectively).…”

Section: Is 〈'〉 Cued By Duration?mentioning

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〈'〉 in Tsimane': a Preliminary Investigation

Havard,

Sy,

Scaff

et al. 2023

Interspeech 2023

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Tsimane' is a language spoken in Bolivia by several thousand people. Yet, it has not been described in detail. We aim to take a step towards a better description by focusing on an aspect of language: the sound represented in spelling with 〈'〉, informally described as a glottal stop. We recorded two adult speakers of Tsimane' producing (near-)minimal pairs involving this sound. Perceptual analyses suggested 〈'〉 is very rarely realised as a full glottal stop, and is more often cued by creaky-voiced vowels and nasals. Despite the variability in implementation, presentation of syllabic minimal pairs to these two informants and two other adult Tsimane' listeners revealed evidence that they could easily perceive when 〈'〉 was intended. Together, these data suffice to rule out the hypothesis that 〈'〉 is systematically realised as a full stop, and suggests instead a more complex set of perceptual cues may be at speakers' and listeners' disposal.

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Section: Is 〈'〉 Cued By Duration?mentioning

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〈'〉 in Tsimane': a Preliminary Investigation

Havard,

Sy,

Scaff

et al. 2023

Interspeech 2023

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“…where variability between full and partial glottal closure is clearest. We assume that creaky realizations of [ʔ] reflect coarticulation with neighboring voiced segments: when [ʔ] is overlapped with a voiced vowel or consonant, it is realized as creaky voice rather than a full stop (see also Borroff 2007, Davidson 2021, and references there). This is consistent with the fact that transitions into and out of [ʔ] are often creaky, even when [ʔ] is realized with full glottal closure (Fig.…”

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Vowel Deletion as Grammatically Controlled Gestural Overlap in Uspanteko

Bennett,

Henderson,

Harvey

2023

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Uspanteko is an endangered Mayan language spoken in Guatemala. Unstressed vowels in Uspanteko often delete, though deletion is variable within and across speakers. Deletion appears to be phonological: it is sensitive to foot structure, morphology, and certain phonotactics, and it occurs in slow, careful speech. But deletion also has characteristics more typical of a phonetic process: it is intertwined with a pattern of gradient vowel reduction and is insensitive to most phonotactics. Electroglottography data shows that even 'deleted' vowels may contribute voicing to [inline-graphic 01] intervals when flanked by voiceless consonants. This suggests that 'deleted' vowels are represented in the input to speech production, even when they are acoustically masked by articulatory overlap with adjacent segments. We conclude that vowel deletion is grammatically controlled gestural overlap, consistent with the claim that phonological representations encode information about the relative timing and coordination of articulatory gestures (e.g. Browman & Goldstein 1986, Gafos 2002). At a minimum, language-specific phonetic processes must have access to more fine-grained, abstract grammatical information than is usually assumed.

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“…On the phonetics of glottal stop in other Mayan languages, see Frazier (2009aFrazier ( ,b, 2013, Baird (2011), Baird and Francisco Pascual (2011), Bennett (2016), England and Baird (2017), Sobrino Gómez (2018), and references there. On glottal variability more generally, see Borroff (2005Borroff ( , 2007, Garellek (2013Garellek ( , 2014, Keating et al (2015), Whalen et al (2016), Davidson (2021)…”

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The phonetics and phonology of Uspanteko (Mayan)

Bennett

Harvey

Henderson

et al. 2022

Language and Linguist. Compass

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Uspanteko is an endangered Mayan language spoken by up to 6000 people in the Guatemalan highlands. We provide an overview of the phonetics and phonology of Uspanteko, focussing on phenomena which are common in Mayan languages and/or typologically interesting. These include glottalised consonants (ejectives, implosives, and glottal stop), uvular consonants, vowel length contrasts, syllable structure, stress, and lexical tone. Tone is unusual among Mayan languages, especially in Guatemala, and the phonetic description here complements the small handful of existing descriptions of tone in Uspanteko and within the Mayan family.

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Effects of word position and flanking vowel on the implementation of glottal stop: Evidence from Hawaiian

Cited by 6 publications

References 49 publications

〈'〉 in Tsimane': a Preliminary Investigation

〈'〉 in Tsimane': a Preliminary Investigation

Vowel Deletion as Grammatically Controlled Gestural Overlap in Uspanteko

The phonetics and phonology of Uspanteko (Mayan)

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