TY  - CONF
A1  - Żygis, Marzena
A1  - Recasens, Daniel
A1  - Espinosa, Aina
A2  - Sock, Rudolph
A2  - Fuchs, Susanne
A2  - Laprie, Yves
T1  - Acoustic characteristics of velar stops and velar softening in German,  Polish and Catalan
T2  - Proceedings of the 8th International Seminar on Speech Production
N2  - Two hypotheses have been proposed in order to account for velar softening, i.e., a process through which /k/ changes to an affricate. Whereas one hypothesis states that for the process to apply the velar stop has to be realized as an (alveolo) palatal stop (articulation-based hypothesis), the other claims that velar softening is triggered by acoustic similarity between the input and output segments (acoustic equivalence hypothesis). The present paper investigates the acoustic equivalence hypothesis by comparing several acoustic properties of /k/ in various vowel contexts with those of /ts , ts , tc / for three languages differing in stop burst aspiration, i.e., German, Polish and Catalan. Results suggest that the acoustic equivalence hypothesis could account for velar softening in aspirated velar stops but not in unaspirated velar stops. The results also provide an explanation as to why aspirated velar stops are prone to undergo softening more easily when followed by front vocalic segments than in other contexts and positions
KW  - Phonetik
Y1  - 2008
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/14084
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1149875
UR  - http://issp2008.loria.fr/Proceedings/PDF/issp2008-18.pdf
SP  - 97
EP  - 100
PB  - Institute de phonetique
CY  - Strasbourg
ER  -