The Interaction of Coarticulation and Prosody in Sound Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10255133 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary E Beckman (The Ohio State University, corresponding author), Kenneth De Jong (0000-0003-4078-1887, University of California, Los Angeles), Sun-Ah Jun (The Ohio State University), Sun‐ah Jun (The Ohio State University), Sook-Hyang Lee (The Ohio State University) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 45-58 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language and Speech (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-8309 • E-ISSN: 1756-6053 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/002383099203500205 |
| OpenAlex | W2474596759 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 19 |
Ohala (1974, 1981a) has proposed that sound changes can originate in hearers' misinterpretations of synchronic phonetic patterns. This paper applies this idea to sound changes that are conditioned by the prosodic environment, such as the voicing of voiceless fricatives in unstressed syllables in Proto-Germanic. Browman and Goldstein's (1989, 1990) “gestural score” suggests a representation of synchronic patterns in which extreme overlap between gestures of neighboring phoneme segments in casual speech can produce the appearance of a feature change or a segment deletion. Many of the sound changes that are conditioned by prosodic environment can be viewed as a diachronic reinterpretation of just such synchronic fast-speech processes. For example, vowel reduction in unstressed syllables can be viewed as a reinterpretation of undershoot that occurs when the vowel is overlapped to a great extent by the oral gestures for neighboring consonants. Phonetic data are reviewed that support analogous accounts of stop spirantization, voiceless obstruent voicing, and even the insertion of an intrusive stop in clusters such as /ns/ in some prosodic environments
Acoustics · Coarticulation · Linguistics · Physics · Prosody · Sound (geography · Sound change · Vowel · Communication · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Speech Recognition and Synthesis
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| Citations per year | 0.23 |
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| Citation span | 1995 - 2022 (28) |
| Highly cited | No |