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
Author: | Marzena ŻygisORCiDGND, Daniel Recasens, Aina Espinosa |
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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): | Deutsches Urheberrecht |