On the phonetic instability of the Polish rhotic /r

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ID19160490
AuthorsSylwester Jaworski (0000-0001-8851-3908, University of Szczecin, corresponding author), Edward Gillian (0000-0003-2732-5107, Wyższa Szkoła Biznesu w Gorzowie Wielkopolskim)
Year2011
Volume47
Publication date2011-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePoznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1732-0747 • E-ISSN: 1897-7499
PublisherDe Gruyter Mouton (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.2478/psicl-2011-0022
OpenAlexW2071967801
LanguageEN
Citations received6

Even though rhotics are very common sounds in the languages of the world, there is a consensus in the literature that they are articulatorily complex. Not only do they tend to be acquired at the last stages of the acquisition period, but also their distribution is usually constrained (cf. Ladefoged and Maddieson 1996; Żygis 2005). As a consequence of being complex, rhotics manifest a strong susceptibility to phonetic change. The present paper reports the results of an experiment that aimed at describing various physical realisations of the Polish phoneme /r/ placed in intervocalic position. The data presented in the article show that in this position speakers do not articulate a tap, but in most cases they produce either a fricative or an approximant. In the light of the data, high vowels constitute an environment that is more conducive to this sort of reduction than mid or low vowels

Arithmetic · Instability · Linguistics · Phonetics · Physics · sort · Sound change · Speech recognition · Vowel · Computer Science · History · Language and Culture · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Mathematics · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology

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