Voicing and aspiration in Swedish stops

Helgason, Pétur; Ringen, Catherine

doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2008.02.003

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“…so we focus our discussion on this measure. Studies such as Helgason & Ringen (2008) indicate that voiceless pre-aspiration durations are subject to individual variation, but our results show such a clear pattern between the two generations that we argue that they are instead indicative of apparent-time change in progress from more to less and quieter preaspiration. While the younger speakers still produce pre-aspirated stops, their pre-aspiration is durationally and qualitatively different.…”

Section: Production Differences Among the Speakerscontrasting

confidence: 75%

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Pre-aspiration and post-aspiration in Scottish Gaelic stop consonants

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Stuart‐Smith

2013

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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This paper aims to describe pre-aspirated and post-aspirated stops in an endangered language, Scottish Gaelic. Our small-scale study investigates several acoustic parameters of Scottish Gaelic stop consonants designed to measure the duration and noisiness of aspiration of the stop in its immediate phonetic context. Our study expands on previous phonetic descriptions of phonemic (pre-)aspiration in three ways: firstly, we provide a more complete durational description of Scottish Gaelic than previous work in the literature; secondly, we apply a new measure, band-pass filtered zero crossing rate (Gordeeva & Scobbie 2010), in order to examine the noisiness of aspiration in addition to durational characteristics. The results from this measure are presented in tandem with durational results in order to assess its usefulness for future research. Thirdly, we consider the possibility of change in the Scottish Gaelic stop system by examining data from older and younger speakers. Results suggest that band-pass filtered zero crossing rate is a useful tool and should be considered in future research on aspiration. Also, durational and zero crossing results indicate that younger speakers have shorter and less noisy pre-aspiration than older speakers. We discuss these results as a possible sound change in progress.

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Section: Production Differences Among the Speakerscontrasting

confidence: 75%

“…Some definitions, however, such as Helgason & Ringen (2008) do include breathy voice as part of initial VOT. Another advantage to BP ZCR is that it can provide a dynamic measure of the vowel+pre-aspiration, and VOT+vowel portions together.…”

Section: Band-pass Filtered Zero Crossing Ratementioning

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Pre-aspiration and post-aspiration in Scottish Gaelic stop consonants

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Stuart‐Smith

2013

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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“…The results here show that speaking rate does have a significant effect not only on fortis stops in SAE, but also on lenis stops. A preliminary comparison can be made between the results for Southern American English and the results found in Central Standard Swedish by Helgason and Ringen (2008). They found that Swedish has both a prevoiced lenis series of stops and an aspirated fortis series of stops.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…Speech rate is an articulatory factor that has been shown to affect the range of VOT values of entire categories (Kessinger & Blumstein 1996, Beckman, Helgason, McMurray, & Ringen 2011. If a language contrasts two phonologically specified categories, as is suggested for Central Standard Swedish (Helgason & Ringen 2008), it is expected that VOT will increase in both categories as speaking rate decreases, as has been shown for CS Swedish (Beckman et al 2011).…”

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“…In languages that contrast two phonologically specified categories, as in the long-lag fortis and prevoiced lenis category contrast in Swedish (Helgason & Ringen 2008), it would therefore be expected that VOT in both categories would increase as speaking rate decreased. Beckman et al (2011) tested this for Swedish and found that at a slow speaking rate, the duration of prevoicing increased in lenis stops, just as the long-lag VOT increased in fortis stops (Table 4).…”

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Rate effects on Southern American English VOT

Morris

2018

Proc Ling Soc Amer

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Abstract. This study examines the effect of speaking rate on VOT durations of initial stops in Southern American English (SAE). English is claimed to have a twoway contrast between long-lag (fortis) and short-lag (lenis) stops, but lenis stops in SAE have been shown to be produced with prevoicing rather than short-lag VOT. This study examines whether SAE lenis stops are specified for privative voice or if prevoicing is an example of contrastive emphasis. Similar to rate effects found in other languages, the data here support the conclusion that SAE does have phonologically specified privative voice in the lenis stop.

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The Representation of Fricatives

Vaux¹,

Miller²

2011

The Blackwell Companion to Phonology

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The phonetic properties of fricatives have recently received a great deal of attention (Shadle 1985; Ladefoged and Maddieson 1996: ch. 5; Johnson 1997: ch. 6; Stevens 1998: ch. 8; Maniwa et al. 2009; Ramsay 2009; among others). The phonological properties of this class of sounds, on the other hand, have, with a few notable exceptions, remained largely undisputed since the publication of Chomsky and Halle (1968), which itself essentially carries on the featural analysis of fricatives in Trubetzkoy (1939) and Jakobson et al. (1952). In this analysis, the class of fricatives is characterized by the distinctive features [−sonorant, +continuant].

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Voicing and aspiration in Swedish stops

Cited by 88 publications

References 34 publications

Pre-aspiration and post-aspiration in Scottish Gaelic stop consonants

Pre-aspiration and post-aspiration in Scottish Gaelic stop consonants

Rate effects on Southern American English VOT

The Representation of Fricatives

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