The search result changed since you submitted your search request. Documents might be displayed in a different sort order.
  • search hit 20 of 74458
Back to Result List

Acoustic characteristics of velar stops and velar softening in German, Polish and Catalan

  • 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

Download full text files

Export metadata

Additional Services

Share in Twitter Search Google Scholar
Metadaten
Author:Marzena ŻygisORCiDGND, Daniel Recasens, Aina Espinosa
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1149875
URL:http://issp2008.loria.fr/Proceedings/PDF/issp2008-18.pdf
Parent Title (German):Proceedings of the 8th International Seminar on Speech Production
Publisher:Institute de phonetique
Place of publication:Strasbourg
Editor:Rudolph Sock, Susanne Fuchs, Yves Laprie
Document Type:Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Year of Completion:2008
Year of first Publication:2008
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2010/04/20
GND Keyword:Phonetik
Page Number:4
First Page:97
Last Page:100
Source:http://issp2008.loria.fr/Proceedings/PDF/issp2008-18.pdf ; (in:) Rudolph Sock, Susanne Fuchs, Yves Laprie: Proceedings of the 8th International Seminar on Speech Production. - Strasbourg: Institute de phonetique, 2008, S. 97-100
HeBIS-PPN:224877860
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
Sammlungen:Linguistik
Linguistik-Klassifikation:Linguistik-Klassifikation: Phonetik/Phonologie / Phonetics/Phonology
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht