Rate effects on Southern American English VOT

Morris, Paul A.

doi:10.3765/plsa.v3i1.4310

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“…In other positions, including word-initial but utterance-medial, American English plosives are more likely to have voicing (Davidson, 2016). Regional differences in VOT have been noted, with speakers from Southern states displaying a tendency to pre-voice word-initial lenis plosives (Hunnicutt & Morris, 2016;Morris, 2018). Lenis VOTs of speakers from Southern British English (e.g., London) range from 10-22 msec.…”

Section: Voice Onset Time In English Korean and Austrian Plosivesmentioning

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Phonotactic Probabilities and Sub-syllabic Segmentation in Language Learning

Luef

Resnik

2023

TAPSLA

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High phonotactic probabilities are known to exert a facilitative effect on word learning in children and adults in their first language. The present study was designed to investigate the role of phonotactic probabilities when learning a foreign language. Focusing on Austrian and Korean learners of English, we investigated two hypotheses related to phonotactic frequency effects: (1) High-frequency segments have more deeply entrenched phonetic representations, with more automatized pronunciation patterns, rendering phonetic learning of homophonous segments more difficult; (2) High-frequency segments are associated with higher phonetic variability in the first language, which can facilitate phonetic learning in a foreign language. Additionally, the locus of phoneme/ bigram frequency effects was analyzed in relation to left-branching and right-branching syllable structure in German and Korean. We found that proximity to English voice-onset time is correlated with phoneme and bigram frequencies in the first language, but results varied by learner group. Sub-syllabic segmentation of the first language was also shown to be an influential factor. Our study is grounded in research on frequency effects and combines its central premise with phonetic learning in a foreign language. The results show a tight relationship between first language statistical probabilities and phonetic learning in a foreign language.

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Section: Voice Onset Time In English Korean and Austrian Plosivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Phonotactic Probabilities and Sub-syllabic Segmentation in Language Learning

Luef

Resnik

2023

TAPSLA

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“…This behavior was found for oral and nasal vowels (Solé 1992), long and short vowels (Pind 1995), pre- and (post)aspiration (Pind 1995, Kessinger & Blumstein 1997, Allen & Miller 1999), and voicing (Kessinger & Blumstein 1997, Beckman et al 2011, Schwarz et al 2019), among others. LR argues that speech rate manipulation only influences segments specified with [voice] and [sg], but not phonologically unspecified segments (Beckman et al 2011, Morris 2018, Schwarz et al 2019, Kulikov 2020). This effect was first found both in languages with two-way and three-way laryngeal systems.…”

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Laryngeal realism and the voicing contrast in Khuzestani Arabic stops

Bahrani¹,

Kulikov²

2023

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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In laryngeal realism (LR), laryngeal specification of stops is explained by direct maps of cues (e.g. VOT) onto privative phonological laryngeal features [voice] or [spread glottis]. Phonetic realization of the segments and speakers’ ‘control’ (e.g. the degree of intervocalic voicing and speech rate manipulation effects on VOT duration) are used as diagnostics of phonological specification. Similar to some Arabic vernacular dialects (e.g. Qatari Arabic), Khuzestani Arabic in Iran presents a case where three voiced stops /b d ɡ/ are in contrast with voiceless stops /p t k/, but two voiceless guttural plosives /tˁ q/ have no voiced homorganic counterparts. In this paper we examine the phonetic realization of voicing in these stops at word-initial and intervocalic position, as well as the effects of speech rate manipulation on VOT and closure voicing. The data came from 12 native speakers recorded in Khorramshahr, Iran. Our findings suggest an over-specified voicing system in this Arabic variety. We found that voiced /b d ɡ/ were produced with voicing lead in initial position and complete closure voicing word medially, voiceless /p t k/ had long lag VOT, while guttural /tˁ q/ had short lag VOT. Speech rate manipulation revealed that only duration of (pre)voicing and duration of aspiration increased in slower speech. Also, f0, F1, and F2 were measured at vowel onset to evaluate the glottal state in production of stops. The results support the predictions of LR that voiced stops are specified by [voice], voiceless stops are [sg], while gutturals lack underlying specification for voice.

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“…Word-initial plosive aspiration, being a feature of the majority of English varieties (e.g., Watt and Yurkova 2007;Berry and Moyle 2011;Docherty et al 2011;Chodroff et al 2015;Sonderegger 2015;Morris 2018), can represent a phonetic challenge for learners of English whose first language is non-aspirating, such as Austrian German and Czech (Moosmüller, Schmid, and Brandstätter 2015;Skarnitzl and Rumlová 2019). From an articulatory viewpoint, aspiration is the period between an initial burst of frication and the start of voicing (Klatt 1975;Abramson and Whalen 2017), which is commonly measured as voice-onset time (or VOT).…”

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Diffusion of Phonetic Updates within Phonological Neighborhoods

Luef

Resnik

Gráf

2022

ELOPE

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Phonological neighborhood density is known to influence lexical access, speech production and perception processes. Lexical competition is considered the central concept from which the neighborhood effect emanates: highly competitive neighborhoods are characterized by large degrees of phonemic co-activation, which can delay speech recognition and facilitate speech production. The study investigates phonetic learning in English as a foreign language in relation to phonological neighborhood density and onset density to see if dense or sparse neighborhoods are more conducive to the incorporation of novel phonetic detail. Also, the effect of voice-contrasted minimal pairs is explored. The results indicate that sparser neighborhoods with weaker lexical competition provide the most optimal phonological environment for phonetic learning. Moreover, novel phonetic details are incorporated faster in neighborhoods without minimal pairs. The results indicate that lexical competition plays a role in the dissemination of phonetic updates in the lexicon of foreign language learners.

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Rate effects on Southern American English VOT

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Phonotactic Probabilities and Sub-syllabic Segmentation in Language Learning

Phonotactic Probabilities and Sub-syllabic Segmentation in Language Learning

Laryngeal realism and the voicing contrast in Khuzestani Arabic stops

Diffusion of Phonetic Updates within Phonological Neighborhoods

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