Leading issues in Tashlhiyt phonology

Ridouane, Rachid

doi:10.1111/lnc3.12211

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“…Tashlhiyt Berber is well-known for allowing typologically rarer syllable structures. For instance, Tashlhiyt onset clusters can violate the sonority sequencing principle by containing sequences of consonants that 'plateau' /kti/ or decrease /rku/ in sonority (Dell & Elmedlaoui, 2002;Ridouane et al, 2014;Ridouane, 2016;Boukous, 1987Boukous, , 2009. An alternative analysis of these consonant sequences is that they are not actually complex onsets; rather, they are heterosyllabic consonants reflecting Tashlhiyt's typologically unusual allowance of any consonant to be the nucleus of a syllable (e.g., /kti/ is syllabified as [k.ti]) (Jebbour 1996(Jebbour , 1999Bensoukas, 2001).…”

Section: B Phonetic Bases Of Phonological Typologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Clear speech in Tashlhiyt Berber: The perception of typologically uncommon word-initial contrasts by native and naive listeners

Zellou

Lahrouchi

Bensoukas

2022

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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Tashlhiyt Berber is known for having typologically unusual word-initial phonological contrasts, specifically, word-initial singleton-geminate minimal pairs (e.g., sin vs ssin) and sequences of consonants that violate the sonority sequencing principle (e.g., non-rising sonority sequences: fsin). The current study investigates the role of a listener-oriented speaking style on the perceptual enhancement of these rarer phonological contrasts. It examines the perception of word-initial singleton, geminate, and complex onsets in Tashlhiyt Berber across clear and casual speaking styles by native and naive listeners. While clear speech boosts the discriminability of pairs containing singleton-initial words for both listener groups, only native listeners performed better in discriminating between initial singleton-geminate contrasts in clear speech. Clear speech did not improve perception for lexical contrasts containing a non-rising-sonority consonant cluster for either listener group. These results are discussed in terms of how clear speech can inform phonological typology and the role of phonetic enhancement in language-universal vs language-specific speech perception.

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Section: B Phonetic Bases Of Phonological Typologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Clear speech in Tashlhiyt Berber: The perception of typologically uncommon word-initial contrasts by native and naive listeners

Zellou

Lahrouchi

Bensoukas

2022

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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“…Seemingly opposed to this is the theory of embedded neural oscillations in speech processing 19,20 , which emphasizes the existence of neural oscillations at a small number of frequency bands, specifically delta (1-3 Hz), theta (4-8 Hz) and gamma (25)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30)(31)(32)(33)(34)(35), involved in the simultaneous processing of prosodic units, syllables and phonemes, respectively, building on the rhythmic organization of the speech signal itself 22 . Such a model thus operates over privileged time scales.…”

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Speech as a complex signal

Guevara

Bogge

2022

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Speech is an auditory signal that needs to robustly transmit complex messages under noisy conditions in an efficient way. How can this be achieved? To answer this question we developed a method for the analysis of time series complexity and applied it to a collection of artificial and natural auditory signals, including speech in different languages. Our complexity measure is the Shannon entropy of the recurrence networks of time series. We found that speech has higher complexity than animal vocalizations, pink noise and a quasiperiodic synthetically generated signal and its complexity is of the order of environmental sounds. We have also found that the global connectivity of recurrence networks correlates with speech rhythm, the temporal modulation of the speech envelope, as well as with a spectral measure of the scaling properties of efficient speech codes. We observe that signals with too large or too small phase autocorrelation have relatively small complexity values, and can thus transmit little information. Speech is situated at intermediate values of phase autocorrelation, in the region of large complexity, in agreement with the idea that complex systems lie at the frontier between order and disorder and that speech has evolved to match the human mind in complexity.

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“…The language is well documented in terms of its grammar, and much work has been done on its linguistic system. The phonology of the language is also well studied and documented (see [6] for a review).…”

Section: Tashlhiyt Amazighmentioning

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Pharyngealization in Amazigh: Acoustic and articulatory marking over time

Buech¹,

Ridouane²,

Hermes³

2022

Interspeech 2022

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Pharyngealization refers to a secondary articulation whereby a set of consonants is produced with the backing of the tongue towards the pharyngeal wall. This typologically rare phenomenon appears in some Afroasiatic languages, including Arabic and Amazigh. While the phonetic characteristics of pharyngealization in Arabic have been investigated in-depth, the comparative data currently available on Amazigh is particularly scant.The present study aims to fill this gap and provides a comprehensive study on the phonetic characteristics of pharyngealization in an Amazigh language. The empirical data comes from acoustic and articulatory recordings of six Tashlhiyt speakers producing a set of singleton and geminate plain coronals and their pharyngealized counterparts in intervocalic position. We analyze formant trajectories of the vowels surrounding plain and pharyngealized consonants and articulatory trajectories during the consonantal movements and examine how the manner of articulation, voicing, and length shape variability in the way the contrast is implemented.Results show that pharyngealization is principally characterized by a large drop of F2 of adjacent vowels at the acoustic level and an extensive lowering of the tongue body at the articulatory level. These attributes are consistent across voicing, length and manner of articulation.

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Leading issues in Tashlhiyt phonology

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Cited by 8 publications

References 34 publications

Clear speech in Tashlhiyt Berber: The perception of typologically uncommon word-initial contrasts by native and naive listeners

Clear speech in Tashlhiyt Berber: The perception of typologically uncommon word-initial contrasts by native and naive listeners

Speech as a complex signal

Pharyngealization in Amazigh: Acoustic and articulatory marking over time

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