On the phonetic instability of the Polish rhotic /r/

Jaworski, Sylwester; Gillian, Edward

doi:10.2478/psicl-2011-0022

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“…Boyce et al (2016: 175) are in agreement, noting that rhotics are "known to involve complex articulations", in addition to being subject to an array of pathological conditions, being "later-developing sounds, … subject to clinically significant misarticulations, …[and] resistant to remediation." For Polish, Jaworski & Gillian (2011) suggest that rhotics are complex from an articulatory point of view, and this complexity makes rhotics especially susceptible to phonetic change. Lindau (1985: 161) also agrees, saying that "[a]n actual trill realization of an /r/ is not as common as might be expected from descriptions of languages, where an /r/ is often labeled as a 'trill.'…”

Section: A Few Questions Raised By the Definition Of A Rhoticmentioning

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What’s wrong with being a rhotic?

Chabot

2019

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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The class of rhotics is subject to extensive variation, and a reliable phonetic correlate has not been found. This variation is also why identifying a segment as a rhotic in an unknown language is not a trivial matter. In contrast to other phonological classes whose membership is attributed based on principled criteria, the set of rhotics is arbitrary. This article identifies two properties independent of phonetics which characterize rhotics cross-linguistically procedural stability-rhotics that are implicated in phonological processes can vary in a phonetically arbitrary manner without perturbing the process itself-and diachronic stability: the phonetics of rhotics can vary in diachronic evolution without impact on their phonotactics. On the empirical side the article establishes a cross-linguistic survey of the phonetic variability of rhotics. It is also argued that the phonetic realization of a rhotic may be unpredictable and divorced from its phonological identity and this shows that languages are happy to instantiate an arbitrary phonetics-phonology relationship. Finally, it is argued that rhotics show that the interface which maps phonological objects to their phonetic instantiations is capable of handling an arbitrary relationship. Further, there is no reason to assume that this property of the interface is specific to rhotics; in principle, all phonetic and phonological categories could enter into an arbitrary relationship. This has important implications for theories which seek to impose phonetic or naturalness based constraints on phonology: it is difficult to see how the relationship between a phonetic object which has no obvious articulatory connection to its phonological representation could be considered phonetically natural. Rhotics thus provide support for the view of substance-free phonology whereby phonological objects are devoid of any reference to phonetic categories.

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Section: A Few Questions Raised By the Definition Of A Rhoticmentioning

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What’s wrong with being a rhotic?

Chabot

2019

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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“…33 Frication also appears to be influenced, at least to some extent, by the quality of the adjacent vowel(s). Jaworski and gillian's (2011) data indicate that, in Polish, intervocalic rhotics undergo frication more frequently if the flanking vowels are high and front than in those contexts where the neighbouring vowels are non-high and back. 34 Figure 1 shows the fricated realizations of the r-sound in bršljan 'ivy' and krčma 'tavern'.…”

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The acoustic properties of the syllabic rhotic of Croatian

Jaworski

2015

Annales Neophilologiarum

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“…We conclude our analysis with an examination of the Harmonics-to-Noise Ratio. As reported by [14], fricatives have a significantly lower HNR than approximants: based on this measure we will indirectly objectify the goodness of the manual annotation (especially for voiced uvular fricatives and uvular approximants).…”

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An Acoustic Analysis of /r/ in Tyrolean

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Spreafico²,

Vietti³

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Interspeech 2016

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This paper offers a preliminary contribution to the phonetic description and acoustic characterization of /r/ allophony in Tyrolean dialect, an under-researched South Bavarian Dialect spoken in the North of Italy. The analysis of target words containing /r/ in different phonotactic contexts, produced by six Tyrolean female speakers, confirms the high degree of intraspeaker variation in the production of /r/ with a uvular place of articulation. The distributional analysis of the allophones in our sample shows a preference among all the speakers for a fricative manner of articulation followed by approximants and taps and, to a lesser extent, by trills (with a very small amount of vocalized variants). These results are in line with previous research in the South-Tyrolean community. Due to the high variability of rhotic sounds, we further investigate and report on some of their shared acoustic features such as duration across the different phonotactic contexts and Harmonics-to-Noise Ratio for the different allophones attested.

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On the phonetic instability of the Polish rhotic /r/

Cited by 9 publications

References 4 publications

What’s wrong with being a rhotic?

What’s wrong with being a rhotic?

The acoustic properties of the syllabic rhotic of Croatian

An Acoustic Analysis of /r/ in Tyrolean

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