The influence of the palate shape on articulatory token-to-token variability

  • Articulatory token-to-token variability not only depends on linguistic aspects like the phoneme inventory of a given language but also on speaker specific morphological and motor constraints. As has been noted previously (Perkell (1997), Mooshammer et al. (2004)) , speakers with coronally high "domeshaped" palates exhibit more articulatory variability than speakers with coronally low "flat" palates. One explanation for that is based on perception oriented control by the speaker. The influence of articulatory variation on the cross sectional area and consequently on the acoustics should be greater for flat palates than for domeshaped ones. This should force speakers with flat palates to place their tongue very precisely whereas speakers with domeshaped palates might tolerate a greater variability. A second explanation could be a greater amount of lateral linguo-palatal contact for flat palates holding the tongue in position. In this study both hypotheses were tested.

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Author:Jana BrunnerGND, Susanne Fuchs, Pascal Perrier
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-1149925
ISSN:0947-7055
ISSN:1435-9588
Parent Title (English):ZAS papers in linguistics, 42.2005
Publisher:Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung
Place of publication:Berlin
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Year of Completion:2005
Year of first Publication:2005
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2010/04/20
GND Keyword:Phonetik
Volume:42
Page Number:25
First Page:43
Last Page:67
Source:http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/papers/zaspil/articles/zp42/399.pdf ; ZAS Papers in Linguistics, 2005, 42, S. 43-67
HeBIS-PPN:224934457
Institutes:keine Angabe Fachbereich / Extern
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
Sammlungen:Linguistik
Linguistik-Klassifikation:Linguistik-Klassifikation: Phonetik/Phonologie / Phonetics/Phonology
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht