Durational cues to resyllabification in Spanish

Word-final consonants in Spanish are post-lexically resyllabified when followed by an onsetless syllable, e.g. venden aves (‘they sell birds’) is traditionally syllabified as ven.de.na.ves and is considered homophonous with vende naves (‘he sells ships’). This study analyzes such two-word minimal pa...

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Authors: Jiménez-Bravo Bonilla, Miguel, Lahoz Bengoechea, José María
Format: article
Publication Date:2023
Country:España
Institution:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repository:Docta Complutense
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/100202
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/100202
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Spanish
Resyllabification
Duration
Articulatory gestures
Ambisyllabicity
Lengua española
Lingüística
5705.05 Fonética
5705.06 Fonología
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spelling Durational cues to resyllabification in SpanishPistas acústicas para la resilabificación en españolJiménez-Bravo Bonilla, MiguelLahoz Bengoechea, José MaríaSpanishResyllabificationDurationArticulatory gesturesAmbisyllabicityLengua españolaLingüística5705.05 Fonética5705.06 FonologíaWord-final consonants in Spanish are post-lexically resyllabified when followed by an onsetless syllable, e.g. venden aves (‘they sell birds’) is traditionally syllabified as ven.de.na.ves and is considered homophonous with vende naves (‘he sells ships’). This study analyzes such two-word minimal pairs inserted in prosodically equivalent sentences read from a list and provides measurements of the acoustic duration of resyllabified /s/, /n/, and /l/, and of their flanking vowels. A mixed-model analysis showed that, when resyllabified as derived onsets, all three consonants pattern together and show a shorter duration (venden aves) in comparison with canonical onsets (vende naves). This is consistent with the coda position that they occupy in the lexical representation, given the weak nature of codas. However, vowel duration varies according to consonant identity. These results are discussed in terms of the articulatory gestures making up the target consonants and allow to interpret that the resyllabified consonant actually becomes the onset of the following syllable. Therefore, we offer converging evidence of resyllabified consonants acting both as codas and onsets, and consequently we propose they can be analyzed as ambisyllabic.Editorial CSICUniversidad Complutense de Madrid20232023-12-1420232023-12-14journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/100202reponame:Docta Complutenseinstname:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/1002022026-06-02T12:44:21Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Durational cues to resyllabification in Spanish
Pistas acústicas para la resilabificación en español
title Durational cues to resyllabification in Spanish
spellingShingle Durational cues to resyllabification in Spanish
Jiménez-Bravo Bonilla, Miguel
Spanish
Resyllabification
Duration
Articulatory gestures
Ambisyllabicity
Lengua española
Lingüística
5705.05 Fonética
5705.06 Fonología
title_short Durational cues to resyllabification in Spanish
title_full Durational cues to resyllabification in Spanish
title_fullStr Durational cues to resyllabification in Spanish
title_full_unstemmed Durational cues to resyllabification in Spanish
title_sort Durational cues to resyllabification in Spanish
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Jiménez-Bravo Bonilla, Miguel
Lahoz Bengoechea, José María
author Jiménez-Bravo Bonilla, Miguel
author_facet Jiménez-Bravo Bonilla, Miguel
Lahoz Bengoechea, José María
author_role author
author2 Lahoz Bengoechea, José María
author2_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidad Complutense de Madrid
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Spanish
Resyllabification
Duration
Articulatory gestures
Ambisyllabicity
Lengua española
Lingüística
5705.05 Fonética
5705.06 Fonología
topic Spanish
Resyllabification
Duration
Articulatory gestures
Ambisyllabicity
Lengua española
Lingüística
5705.05 Fonética
5705.06 Fonología
description Word-final consonants in Spanish are post-lexically resyllabified when followed by an onsetless syllable, e.g. venden aves (‘they sell birds’) is traditionally syllabified as ven.de.na.ves and is considered homophonous with vende naves (‘he sells ships’). This study analyzes such two-word minimal pairs inserted in prosodically equivalent sentences read from a list and provides measurements of the acoustic duration of resyllabified /s/, /n/, and /l/, and of their flanking vowels. A mixed-model analysis showed that, when resyllabified as derived onsets, all three consonants pattern together and show a shorter duration (venden aves) in comparison with canonical onsets (vende naves). This is consistent with the coda position that they occupy in the lexical representation, given the weak nature of codas. However, vowel duration varies according to consonant identity. These results are discussed in terms of the articulatory gestures making up the target consonants and allow to interpret that the resyllabified consonant actually becomes the onset of the following syllable. Therefore, we offer converging evidence of resyllabified consonants acting both as codas and onsets, and consequently we propose they can be analyzed as ambisyllabic.
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2023-12-14
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