Lexical and Phonological Properties of Dutch Voicing Assimilation

Zonneveld, Wim

doi:10.1515/9783110846270.297

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“…The consonant cluster in the prime, consisting of the final obstruent of the verbal stem and the initial consonant of the clitic pronoun, was realized as voiceless (e.g., [kist´r] kies d'r 'choose her'), or as voiced ([kizd´r]). Both realizations are well-formed in Dutch (e.g., Zonneveld 1983). Listeners appeared to respond faster to target words ending in alternating obstruents when these obstruents were voiced in the prime, and to targets words ending in non-alternating obstruents when these obstruents were voiceless in the prime.…”

Section: Of [Mant] Mand?mentioning

confidence: 91%

6. Intraparadigmatic effects on the perception of voice

Ernestus¹,

Baayen²

2007

Current Issues in Linguistic Theory

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In Dutch, all morpheme-final obstruents are voiceless in word-final position. As a consequence, the distinction between obstruents that are voiced before vowel-initial suffixes and those that are always voiceless is neutralized. This study adds to the existing evidence that the neutralization is incomplete: neutralized, alternating plosives tend to have shorter bursts than non-alternating plosives. Furthermore, in a rating study, listeners scored the alternating plosives as more voiced than the nonalternating plosives, showing sensitivity to the subtle subphonemic cues in the acoustic signal. Importantly, the participants who were presented with the complete words, instead of just the final rhymes, scored the voiceless alternating plosives as even more voiced. This shows that listeners' perception of voice is affected by their knowledge of the obstruent's realization in the word's morphological paradigm. Apparently, subphonemic paradigmatic levelling is a characteristic of both production and perception. We explain the effects within an analogy-based approach.

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Section: Of [Mant] Mand?mentioning

confidence: 91%

6. Intraparadigmatic effects on the perception of voice

Ernestus¹,

Baayen²

2007

Current Issues in Linguistic Theory

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“…It changes all syllable-final voiced obstruents into their voiceless counterparts. Voice assimilation rules are fed by final devoicing, i.e., they apply after all final obstruents have already been devoiced (Slis, 1984;Zonneveld, 1983). Progressive voice assimilation devoices voiced fricatives if they are preceded by another voiceless obstruent.…”

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A comparison of lexeme and speech syllables in Dutch

Schiller

Meyer

Baayen

et al. 1996

Journal of Quantitative Linguistics

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The CELEX lexical database includes a list of Dutch syllables and their frequencies, based on syllabification of isolated word forms. In connected speech, however, sentence-level phonological rules can modify the syllables and their token frequencies. In order to estimate the changes syllables may undergo in connected speech, an empirical investigation was carried out. A large Dutch text corpus (TROUW) was transcribed, processed by word level rules, and syllabified. The resulting lexeme syllables were evaluated by comparing them to the CELEX lexical database for Dutch. Then additional phonological sentence-level rules were applied to the TROUW corpus, and the frequencies of the resulting connected speech syllables were compared with those of the lexeme syllables from TROUW. The overall correlation between lexeme and speech syllables was very high. However, speech syllables generally had more complex CV structures than lexeme syllables. Implications of the results for research involving syllables are discussed. With respect to the notion of a mental syllabary (a store for precompiled articulatory programs for syllables, see Levelt & Wheeldon, 1994) this study revealed an interesting statistical result. The calculation of the cumulative syllable frequencies showed that 85% of the syllable tokens in Dutch can be covered by the 500 most frequent syllable types, which makes the idea of a syllabary very attractive.

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“…They are voiceless before other suffixes (see 3a,b), in compounds (see 4a,b), and before clitics (see 5a,b). In a derivational rule-based approach, it is inferred that final devoicing takes place after suffixation of the former suffixes and before suffixation of the latter suffixes, before compounding, and before cliticization (Berendsen 1983, Berendsen et al 1984, Zonneveld 1983 (2) a. /ro:…”

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“…The order of rules for final devoicing, progressive assimilation, and regressive assimilation is thus as below (Berendsen 1983, Zonneveld 1983: Voicing assimilation is also attested in compounds and across (grammatical) word boundaries. In cases where the second obstruent in a cluster is a stop, regressive voicing assimilation takes place:…”

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“…In derivational frameworks, final devoicing and voicing assimilation have always been regarded as evidence for rule ordering in Dutch (e.g., Berendsen 1983, Berendsen et al 1984, Zonneveld 1983. In more recent constraint-based approaches, lexical and postlexical levels have been assumed to account for some Dutch voicing phenomena (Booij 1996), and other linguists propose context-specific faithfulness constraints for a few cases of final devoicing and voicing assimilation (e.g.…”

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