Christopher Carignan
Biographic Data
| ID | 242289 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Carignan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Carignan |
| SIGNATURE | CARIGNAN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1565-3691 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The perception of anticipatory nasality in English, French, and German
The goal of the current paper is to study the perception of long-distance anticipatory nasality in three languages – American English, Northern Metropolitan French, and Standard German. The study thereby links explicitly to our previous production study which was able to show that nasality can, in all three languages, spread beyond the prenasal vowel in CVN words. Nonetheless, there were significant differences between languages in terms of the t…
An acoustic exploration of sibilant contrasts and sibilant merger in Mixean Basque
This exploratory study investigates sibilants in Mixean Low Navarrese, an endangered variety of Basque. This variety has been described with ten different contrastive sibilants: /s̻, s̺, ʃ, t͡s̻, t͡s̺, t͡ʃ, z̻, z̺, ʒ, d͡z̺/. The objective of the paper is to (a) provide a detailed description of the acoustics of Mixean sibilants, and (b) elucidate whether ten categories can be proposed based only on acoustical data, or whether fewer categories sho…
Language-specific and individual variation in anticipatory nasal coarticulation
Anticipatory nasal coarticulation is studied in American English, Northern Metropolitan French and Standard German. • Anticipatory nasality is most extensive in English, possibly due to the pre-nasal vowel acting as source of coarticulation. • In German and French, coarticulatory nasality covers on average 80-90% of the pre-nasal vowel. • German is most variable, consistent with a lack of phonological control of vowel nasality in this language. •…
Assessing ultrasound probe stabilization for quantifying speech production contrasts using the Adjustable Laboratory Probe Holder for UltraSound (ALPHUS)
Perceptual identification of oral and nasalized vowels across American English and British English listeners and TTS voices
Nasal coarticulation is when the lowering of the velum for a nasal consonant co-occurs with the production of an adjacent vowel, causing the vowel to become (at least partially) nasalized. In the case of anticipatory nasal coarticulation, enhanced coarticulatory magnitude on the vowel facilitates the identification of an upcoming nasal coda consonant. However, nasalization also affects the acoustic properties of the vowel, including formant frequ…
Planting the seed for sound change
Evidence for active control of tongue lateralization in Australian English /l
Research on the temporal dynamics of /l/ production has focused primarily on mid-sagittal tongue movements. This study reports how known variations in the timing of mid-sagittal gestures are related to para-sagittal dynamics in /l/ formation in Australian English (AusE), using three-dimensional electromagnetic articulography (3D EMA). The articulatory analyses show (1) consistent with past work, the temporal lag between tongue tip and tongue body…
Planting the seed for sound change
Velum movement signals generated from real-time magnetic resonance imaging videos of thirty-five German speakers were used to investigate the physiological conditions that might promote sound change involving the development of contrastive vowel nasality. The results suggest that, in comparison to when a nasal consonant precedes a voiced obstruent, the velum gesture associated with a nasal consonant preceding a voiceless obstruent undergoes gestu…
Phonological contrast and phonetic variation
Phonological contrast and phonetic variation
2020, Linguistic Society of America. All rights reserved. A field-based ultrasound and acoustic study of Iwaidja, an endangered Australian Aboriginal language, investigates the phonetic identity of nonnasal velar consonants in intervocalic position, where past work has proposed a [+continuant] vs. [−continuant] phonemic contrast. We analyze the putative contrast within a continuous phonetic space, defined by both acoustic and articulatory paramet…
Covariation of nasalization, tongue height, and breathiness in the realization of F1 of Southern French nasal vowels
Coarticulation and Sound Change in Romance, written by Daniel Recasens
A real-time MRI investigation of the role of lingual and pharyngeal articulation in the production of the nasal vowel system of French
An acoustic and articulatory examination of the "oral" in "nasal
Compensatory articulation in American English nasalized vowels
Planting the seed for sound change
Velum movement signals generated from real-time magnetic resonance imaging videos of thirty-five German speakers were used to investigate the physiological conditions that might promote sound change involving the development of contrastive vowel nasality. The results suggest that, in comparison to when a nasal consonant precedes a voiced obstruent, the velum gesture associated with a nasal consonant preceding a voiceless obstruent undergoes gestu…
A real-time MRI investigation of the role of lingual and pharyngeal articulation in the production of the nasal vowel system of French
An acoustic and articulatory examination of the "oral" in "nasal
Covariation of nasalization, tongue height, and breathiness in the realization of F1 of Southern French nasal vowels
Compensatory articulation in American English nasalized vowels
Phonological contrast and phonetic variation
2020, Linguistic Society of America. All rights reserved. A field-based ultrasound and acoustic study of Iwaidja, an endangered Australian Aboriginal language, investigates the phonetic identity of nonnasal velar consonants in intervocalic position, where past work has proposed a [+continuant] vs. [−continuant] phonemic contrast. We analyze the putative contrast within a continuous phonetic space, defined by both acoustic and articulatory paramet…
Evidence for active control of tongue lateralization in Australian English /l
Research on the temporal dynamics of /l/ production has focused primarily on mid-sagittal tongue movements. This study reports how known variations in the timing of mid-sagittal gestures are related to para-sagittal dynamics in /l/ formation in Australian English (AusE), using three-dimensional electromagnetic articulography (3D EMA). The articulatory analyses show (1) consistent with past work, the temporal lag between tongue tip and tongue body…
Language-specific and individual variation in anticipatory nasal coarticulation
Anticipatory nasal coarticulation is studied in American English, Northern Metropolitan French and Standard German. • Anticipatory nasality is most extensive in English, possibly due to the pre-nasal vowel acting as source of coarticulation. • In German and French, coarticulatory nasality covers on average 80-90% of the pre-nasal vowel. • German is most variable, consistent with a lack of phonological control of vowel nasality in this language. •…
Compensatory articulation in American English nasalized vowels
An acoustic and articulatory examination of the "oral" in "nasal
A real-time MRI investigation of the role of lingual and pharyngeal articulation in the production of the nasal vowel system of French
Coarticulation and Sound Change in Romance, written by Daniel Recasens
Covariation of nasalization, tongue height, and breathiness in the realization of F1 of Southern French nasal vowels
Phonological contrast and phonetic variation
Phonological contrast and phonetic variation
2020, Linguistic Society of America. All rights reserved. A field-based ultrasound and acoustic study of Iwaidja, an endangered Australian Aboriginal language, investigates the phonetic identity of nonnasal velar consonants in intervocalic position, where past work has proposed a [+continuant] vs. [−continuant] phonemic contrast. We analyze the putative contrast within a continuous phonetic space, defined by both acoustic and articulatory paramet…
Planting the seed for sound change
Evidence for active control of tongue lateralization in Australian English /l
Research on the temporal dynamics of /l/ production has focused primarily on mid-sagittal tongue movements. This study reports how known variations in the timing of mid-sagittal gestures are related to para-sagittal dynamics in /l/ formation in Australian English (AusE), using three-dimensional electromagnetic articulography (3D EMA). The articulatory analyses show (1) consistent with past work, the temporal lag between tongue tip and tongue body…
Planting the seed for sound change
Velum movement signals generated from real-time magnetic resonance imaging videos of thirty-five German speakers were used to investigate the physiological conditions that might promote sound change involving the development of contrastive vowel nasality. The results suggest that, in comparison to when a nasal consonant precedes a voiced obstruent, the velum gesture associated with a nasal consonant preceding a voiceless obstruent undergoes gestu…
Perceptual identification of oral and nasalized vowels across American English and British English listeners and TTS voices
Nasal coarticulation is when the lowering of the velum for a nasal consonant co-occurs with the production of an adjacent vowel, causing the vowel to become (at least partially) nasalized. In the case of anticipatory nasal coarticulation, enhanced coarticulatory magnitude on the vowel facilitates the identification of an upcoming nasal coda consonant. However, nasalization also affects the acoustic properties of the vowel, including formant frequ…
An acoustic exploration of sibilant contrasts and sibilant merger in Mixean Basque
This exploratory study investigates sibilants in Mixean Low Navarrese, an endangered variety of Basque. This variety has been described with ten different contrastive sibilants: /s̻, s̺, ʃ, t͡s̻, t͡s̺, t͡ʃ, z̻, z̺, ʒ, d͡z̺/. The objective of the paper is to (a) provide a detailed description of the acoustics of Mixean sibilants, and (b) elucidate whether ten categories can be proposed based only on acoustical data, or whether fewer categories sho…
Language-specific and individual variation in anticipatory nasal coarticulation
Anticipatory nasal coarticulation is studied in American English, Northern Metropolitan French and Standard German. • Anticipatory nasality is most extensive in English, possibly due to the pre-nasal vowel acting as source of coarticulation. • In German and French, coarticulatory nasality covers on average 80-90% of the pre-nasal vowel. • German is most variable, consistent with a lack of phonological control of vowel nasality in this language. •…
Assessing ultrasound probe stabilization for quantifying speech production contrasts using the Adjustable Laboratory Probe Holder for UltraSound (ALPHUS)
The perception of anticipatory nasality in English, French, and German
The goal of the current paper is to study the perception of long-distance anticipatory nasality in three languages – American English, Northern Metropolitan French, and Standard German. The study thereby links explicitly to our previous production study which was able to show that nasality can, in all three languages, spread beyond the prenasal vowel in CVN words. Nonetheless, there were significant differences between languages in terms of the t…
Computer Science (12 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (11 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (11 works) · Linguistics (10 works) · Physics (10 works) · Speech recognition (10 works) · Vowel (9 works) · Acoustics (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Audiology (7 works)