Explaining Variation And Change In Spanish Peripheral Fricatives

Mazzaro, Natalia

doi:10.1515/shll-2014-1169

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“…Earlier research determined how linguistic categories, such as the place of articulation and voicing shape the spectral properties of fricatives (e.g., Hughes and Halle, 1956 ; Nittrouer et al, 1989 ; Baum and McNutt, 1990 ; Ladefoged and Maddieson, 1996 ; Jongman et al, 2000 ; Fox and Nissen, 2005 ; Shadle, 2010 ; Iskarous et al, 2011 ; Koenig et al, 2013 ), yet most of these findings are based on acoustic evidence from a single language variety (e.g., for Korean fricatives see Cho et al, 2002 , for English fricatives see Tabain, 1998 ; Jongman et al, 2000 ; Iskarous et al, 2011 ). Despite the fact that a number of earlier studies showed that social factors, such as gender and age (e.g., see Jongman et al, 2000 ; Fox and Nissen, 2005 ; Li et al, 2016 ), education, social identity, social networks (e.g., Baran, 2014 ) and the place of origin, urban vs. rural (Dubois and Horvath, 1998 ; Kochetov, 2006 ; Stuart-Smith, 2007 ; Mazzaro, 2011 ) have significant effects on fricatives, the effects of dialect on fricatives acoustic structure are understudied.…”

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Effects of Two Linguistically Proximal Varieties on the Spectral and Coarticulatory Properties of Fricatives: Evidence from Athenian Greek and Cypriot Greek

Themistocleous¹

2017

Front. Psychol.

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Several studies have explored the acoustic structure of fricatives, yet there has been very little acoustic research on the effects of dialects on the production of fricatives. This article investigates the effects of two linguistically proximal Modern Greek dialects, Athenian Greek and Cypriot Greek on the temporal, spectral, and coarticulatory properties of fricatives and aims to determine the acoustic properties that convey information about these two dialects. Productions of voiced and voiceless labiodental, dental, alveolar, palatal, and velar fricatives were extracted from a speaking task from typically speaking female adult speakers (25 Cypriot Greek and 20 Athenian Greek speakers). Measures were made of spectral properties, using a spectral moments analysis. The formants of the following vowel were measured and second degree polynomials of the formant contours were calculated. The findings showed that Athenian Greek and Cypriot Greek fricatives differ in all spectral properties across all places of articulation. Also, the co-articulatory effects of fricatives on following vowel were different depending on the dialect. Duration, spectral moments, and the starting frequencies of F1, F2, F3, and F4 contributed the most to the classification of dialect. These findings provide a solid evidence base for the manifestation of dialectal information in the acoustic structure of fricatives.

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