Laryngeal contrast and sound change
The production and perception of plosive voicing and co-intrinsic pitch
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11115035 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jiayin Gao (0000-0001-7572-4482, Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie), James Kirby (0000-0003-1839-5883) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 100 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 124-158 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/lan.2024.a922001 |
| OpenAlex | W4392741306 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Inspired by Beddor 2009, this article explores whether and how trading relations between coarticulatory source and effect may serve as a precursor for sound change. It aims at extending the case of vowel nasalization examined by Beddor to the relationship between closure voicing (source) and co-intrinsic pitch (effect). Through four production and perception studies, we show that the inverse source-effect relation observed for vowel nasalization is not found in the voicing contrast of French, a true-voicing language. Instead, we propose that the phonologization of co-intrinsic pitch (a.k.a. tonogenesis) originates from spontaneous devoicing (a production bias), which subsequently triggers an upweighting of pitch (a perceptual adaptation strategy)
Acoustics · Audiology · Contrast (vision · Linguistics · Nasalization · Optics · Perception · Physics · Sound change · Speech recognition · Voice · Vowel · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Medicine · Neuroscience · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology
| Citations per year | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |