VOT or quantity: What matters more for the voicing contrast in German regional varieties? Results from apparent-time analyses

Kleber, Felicitas

doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2018.10.004

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“…Given that German voiceless plosives are aspirated in the same manner as the English ones, there is little risk of interference in the L1 English of this participant. On the other hand, German voiced plosives exhibit different voicing patterns than the English ones (Kleber 2018) and the potential L2 German interference in this control group participant could not be completely ruled out (despite the findings of Stoehr et al 2017); therefore his lenis plosives were not included in the analysis.…”

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First language attrition in voice onset times in Anglophone expatriates residing in the Czech Republic

Sučková¹

2020

Brno Studies in English

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First language attrition in voice onset times in Anglophone expatriates residing in the Czech Republic

Sučková¹

2020

Brno Studies in English

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“…The 10 new submissions covered production data on the voicing contrast obtained from 270 speakers across 19 languages. Among the 19 languages studied are two languages whose voicing contrast has been well-documented in the literature: English appearing in two of the contributions (Ahn, 2018a with 8 speakers; Kim, Kim & Cho, 2018 with 11 speakers), and German, with three varieties appearing across two contributions (Swiss German: Ladd & Schmid, 2018 with 20 speakers; Bavarian and Saxon varieties of German: Kleber 2018 with 21 and 20 speakers, respectively). Other languages whose voicing contrast has not been fully understood despite the substantial number of their speakers include Brazilian Portuguese (Ahn, 2018a with 8 speakers); Thai (Kirby, 2018 with 12 speakers); Turkish (U Ünal-Logacev, Fuchs & Lancia, 2018 with 6 speakers); and Russian (Kharlamov, 2018 with 60 speakers).…”

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“…Kleber (2018, this collection) investigates stop voicing contrast in two German varieties: Saxon German and Bavarian German. The two dialects have been known to show voicing contrast neutralization in initial position (in both Saxon and Bavarian) and in medial position (in Saxon), especially as far as VOT contrast is concerned.…”

Section: Sociolinguistics: Language Contact and Levellingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Voice onset time and beyond: Exploring laryngeal contrast in 19 languages

Cho

Whalen

Docherty

2019

Journal of Phonetics

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In this special collection entitled Marking 50 Years of Research on Voice Onset Time and the Voicing Contrast in the World’s Languages, we have compiled eleven studies investigating the voicing contrast in 19 languages. The collection provides extensive data obtained from 270 speakers across those languages, examining VOT and other acoustic, aerodynamic and articulatory measures. The languages studied may be divided into four groups: ‘aspirating’ languages with a two-way contrast (English, three varieties of German); ‘true voicing’ languages with a two-way contrast (Russian, Turkish, Brazilian Portuguese, two Iranian languages Pashto and Wakhi); languages with a three-way contrast (Thai, Vietnamese, Khmer, Yerevan Armenia, three Indo-Aryan languages, Dawoodi, Punjabi and Shina, and Burushaki spoken in India); and Indo-Aryan languages with a more than three-way contrast (Jangli and Urdu with a four-way contrast, and Sindhi and Siraiki with a five-way contrast). We discuss the cross-linguistic data, focusing on how much VOT alone tell s us above the voicing contrast in these languages, and what other phonetic dimensions (such as consonant-induced F0 and voice quality) are needed for a complete understanding of laryngeal contrast in these languages. Implications for various issues emerge: universal phonetic feature systems, effects of language contact on linguistic levelling, and the relation between laryngeal contrast and supralaryngeal articulation. The cross-linguistic VOT data also lead us to discuss how the distribution of VOT as measured acoustically may allow us to infer the underlying articulation and how it might be approached in gestural phonologies. The discussion on these multiple issues sparks new questions to be resolved, and provide indications of where the field may be best directed in exploring laryngeal contrast in voicing in the world’s languages.

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“…Further, this broad analysis would fail to account for more subtle effects seen in our data, especially between Dutch and German, which do point to a relative, rather than absolute, prediction about developmental patterning across languages. We can indeed relate the relatively lower percentage of [h] substitution as well as the higher rate of |ö| deletion in Dutch, in comparison to German, to the fact that in the German dialect of the children documented within the Grimm corpus, the voiced/voiceless contrast among plosive obstruents is best described as degrees aspiration, or positive voice onset time (Kleber, 2018, and references therein), while Dutch displays voicing contrasts more comparable to that of French or Portuguese, whereby voiceless stops are generally plain (unaspirated) and voiced stops display a degree of pre-voicing, or negative voice onset time (Lisker and Abramson, 1964; van Alphen and Smits, 2004). German thus displays more robust aspiration cues than that of Dutch, hence the more robust pattern of [h] substitution in the German data revealed by our survey.…”

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Language and Learner Specific Influences on the Emergence of Consonantal Place and Manner Features

Rose

Penney

2021

Front. Psychol.

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This article focuses on the emergence of consonantal place and manner feature categories in the speech of first language learners. Starting with an overview of current representational approaches to phonology, we take the position that only models that allow for the emergence of phonological categories at all levels of phonological representation (from sub-segmental properties of speech sounds all the way to word forms represented within the child’s lexicon) can account for the data. We begin with a cross-linguistic survey of the acquisition of rhotic consonants. We show that the types of substitutions affecting different rhotics cross-linguistically can be predicted from two main observations: the phonetic characteristics of these rhotics and the larger system of categories displayed by each language. We then turn to a peculiar pattern of labial substitution for coronal continuants in the speech of a German learner. Building on previous literature on the topic, we attribute the emergence of this pattern to distributional properties of the child’s developing lexicon. Together, these observations suggest that our understanding of phonological emergence must involve a consideration of multiple, potentially interacting levels of phonetic and phonological representation.

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VOT or quantity: What matters more for the voicing contrast in German regional varieties? Results from apparent-time analyses

Cited by 11 publications

References 45 publications

First language attrition in voice onset times in Anglophone expatriates residing in the Czech Republic

First language attrition in voice onset times in Anglophone expatriates residing in the Czech Republic

Voice onset time and beyond: Exploring laryngeal contrast in 19 languages

Language and Learner Specific Influences on the Emergence of Consonantal Place and Manner Features

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