Intervocalic lenition, contrastiveness and neutralization in Catalan

In this study we examine the effects of word boundaries on the lenition of intervocalic voiceless plosives in Catalan in order to test the role of phonological contrastiveness in phonetic processes. Here we test the hypothesis that word-final intervocalic voiceless plosives (VC#V) will show greater...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Hualde, José Ignacio|||0000-0003-4969-2995, Zhang, Jennifer|||0000-0001-9308-0764
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:266615
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/266615
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/isogloss.181
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Catalan
Intervocalic lenition
id ES_ea868b347b39c96a4e9121bb30c849a5
oai_identifier_str oai:ddd.uab.cat:266615
network_acronym_str ES
network_name_str España
repository_id_str
spelling Intervocalic lenition, contrastiveness and neutralization in CatalanHualde, José Ignacio|||0000-0003-4969-2995Zhang, Jennifer|||0000-0001-9308-0764CatalanIntervocalic lenitionIn this study we examine the effects of word boundaries on the lenition of intervocalic voiceless plosives in Catalan in order to test the role of phonological contrastiveness in phonetic processes. Here we test the hypothesis that word-final intervocalic voiceless plosives (VC#V) will show greater lenition than word-internal and word-initial intervocalic tokens (VCV, V#CV), since in word-final position the contrast between /ptk/ and /bdg/ is neutralized. Lenition should be manifested acoustically as greater intensity, shorter duration and greater voicing. We find weaker support for the hypothesis than in a parallel study on Basque, suggesting the existence of phonological differences between the two languages. On the other hand, we find a strong effect of style on intervocalic lenition, with conversational speech promoting more lenited consonants. Intervocalic stop lenition in Catalan does not appear to be driven by temporal reduction. 22022-01-0120222022-01-01Articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://ddd.uab.cat/record/266615https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/isogloss.181reponame:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UABinstname:Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaInglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial, la distribució, la comunicació pública de l'obra i la creació d'obres derivades, fins i tot amb finalitats comercials, sempre i quan es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:ddd.uab.cat:2666152026-06-06T12:50:31Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Intervocalic lenition, contrastiveness and neutralization in Catalan
title Intervocalic lenition, contrastiveness and neutralization in Catalan
spellingShingle Intervocalic lenition, contrastiveness and neutralization in Catalan
Hualde, José Ignacio|||0000-0003-4969-2995
Catalan
Intervocalic lenition
title_short Intervocalic lenition, contrastiveness and neutralization in Catalan
title_full Intervocalic lenition, contrastiveness and neutralization in Catalan
title_fullStr Intervocalic lenition, contrastiveness and neutralization in Catalan
title_full_unstemmed Intervocalic lenition, contrastiveness and neutralization in Catalan
title_sort Intervocalic lenition, contrastiveness and neutralization in Catalan
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Hualde, José Ignacio|||0000-0003-4969-2995
Zhang, Jennifer|||0000-0001-9308-0764
author Hualde, José Ignacio|||0000-0003-4969-2995
author_facet Hualde, José Ignacio|||0000-0003-4969-2995
Zhang, Jennifer|||0000-0001-9308-0764
author_role author
author2 Zhang, Jennifer|||0000-0001-9308-0764
author2_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Catalan
Intervocalic lenition
topic Catalan
Intervocalic lenition
description In this study we examine the effects of word boundaries on the lenition of intervocalic voiceless plosives in Catalan in order to test the role of phonological contrastiveness in phonetic processes. Here we test the hypothesis that word-final intervocalic voiceless plosives (VC#V) will show greater lenition than word-internal and word-initial intervocalic tokens (VCV, V#CV), since in word-final position the contrast between /ptk/ and /bdg/ is neutralized. Lenition should be manifested acoustically as greater intensity, shorter duration and greater voicing. We find weaker support for the hypothesis than in a parallel study on Basque, suggesting the existence of phonological differences between the two languages. On the other hand, we find a strong effect of style on intervocalic lenition, with conversational speech promoting more lenited consonants. Intervocalic stop lenition in Catalan does not appear to be driven by temporal reduction.
publishDate 2022
dc.date.none.fl_str_mv 2
2022-01-01
2022
2022-01-01
dc.type.none.fl_str_mv Article
http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501
VoR
http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85
dc.type.openaire.fl_str_mv info:eu-repo/semantics/article
format article
dc.identifier.none.fl_str_mv https://ddd.uab.cat/record/266615
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/isogloss.181
url https://ddd.uab.cat/record/266615
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.5565/rev/isogloss.181
dc.language.none.fl_str_mv Inglés
eng
language_invalid_str_mv Inglés
language eng
dc.rights.none.fl_str_mv open access
http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.rights.openaire.fl_str_mv info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
rights_invalid_str_mv open access
http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
eu_rights_str_mv openAccess
dc.format.none.fl_str_mv application/pdf
dc.source.none.fl_str_mv reponame:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
instname:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
instname_str Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
reponame_str Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
collection Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
repository.name.fl_str_mv
repository.mail.fl_str_mv
_version_ 1869423147492573184
score 15.301629

Similares en LA Referencia