Blending in heterosyllabic consonant clusters in three Catalan dialects

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ID19513301
AuthorsDaniel Recasens (0000-0001-6768-2358, Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume49
Pages79-95
Publication date2008-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueZAS Papers in Linguistics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1435-9588 • E-ISSN: 1435-9588
PublisherUniversity Library J. C. Senckenberg (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.21248/zaspil.49.2008.365
OpenAlexW115735361
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited7

This study is an electropalatographic investigation of clusters composed of /n/ or /l/ followed by the (alveolo)palatal consonants /ʎ, ɲ/ or by dental /t/ in three Catalan dialects, i.e., Majorcan, Valencian and Eastern. Data show that articulatory blending through superposition occurs in the palatalizing environment except when C1 is highly constrained (e.g., dark /l/) or C2 is purely palatal and therefore, produced at a distant articulatory location from C1. Contrary to previous descriptions in the literature, data for /nt, lt/ reveal that blending through superposition rather than assimilation is at work. The implications of these data for theories of speech production are discussed

Catalan · Consonant · Consonant cluster · Linguistics · Mathematical analysis · Speech recognition · Superposition principle · Valencian · Vowel · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies

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