Compensation for coarticulation, /u/-fronting, and sound change in standard southern British
An acoustic and perceptual study
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23366247 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan Harrington (0000-0002-9035-0949, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Felicitas Kleber (0000-0001-8952-6874, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Ulrich Reubold (0000-0002-8534-3429, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 123 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 2825-2835 |
| Publication date | 2008-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-4966 • E-ISSN: 1520-8524 |
| Publisher | Acoustical Society of America (ASA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1121/1.2897042 |
| PMID | 18529198 |
| OpenAlex | W2151705288 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 67 |
| References cited | 27 |
The aim of the study was to establish whether /u/-fronting, a sound change in progress in standard southern British, could be linked synchronically to the fronting effects of a preceding anterior consonant both in speech production and speech perception. For the production study, which consisted of acoustic analyses of isolated monosyllables produced by two different age groups, it was shown for younger speakers that /u/ was phonetically fronted and that the coarticulatory influence of consonants on /u/ was less than in older speakers. For the perception study, responses were elicited from the same subjects to two minimal word-pair continua that differed in the direction of the consonants’ coarticulatory fronting effects on /u/. Consistent with their speech production, young listeners’ /u/ category boundary was shifted toward /i/ and they compensated perceptually less for the fronting effects of the consonants on /u/ than older listeners. The findings support Ohala’s model in which certain sound changes can be linked to the listener’s failure to compensate for coarticulation. The results are also shown to be consistent with episodic models of speech perception in which phonological frequency effects bring about a realignment of the variants of a phonological category in speech production and perception.
Acoustics · Audiology · Coarticulation · Consonant · Linguistics · Motor theory of speech perception · Perception · Phonological development · Phonological rule · Phonology · Physics · Sound change · Speech perception · Speech production · Speech recognition · Speech sound · Stop consonant · Voice-onset time · Vowel · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Medicine · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Speech Recognition and Synthesis
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