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Planting the seed for sound change

Evidence from real-time MRI of velum kinematics in German

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ID2940401
AuthorsChristopher Carignan (0000-0002-1565-3691, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Stefano Coretta (0000-0001-9627-5532, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Jens Frahm (0000-0002-8279-884X, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Jonathan Harrington (0000-0002-9035-0949, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Phil Hoole (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Arun Joseph (0009-0009-7357-1473, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Esther Kunay (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Dirk Voit (0000-0002-0058-2157, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Year2021
Volume97
Issue2
Pages333-364
Publication date2021-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/lan.2021.0020
OpenAlexW3175549842
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited42

Velum movement signals generated from real-time magnetic resonance imaging videos of thirty-five German speakers were used to investigate the physiological conditions that might promote sound change involving the development of contrastive vowel nasality. The results suggest that, in comparison to when a nasal consonant precedes a voiced obstruent, the velum gesture associated with a nasal consonant preceding a voiceless obstruent undergoes gestural rescaling and temporal rephasing. This further suggests that the diachronic development of contrastive vowel nasality comprises two stages: the first stage involves gestural shortening and realignment, while the second stage involves a trading relationship between source and effect

Acoustics · Audiology · Consonant · German · Gesture · Linguistics · Nasality · Obstruent · Physics · Sound change · Speech recognition · Vowel · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Medicine · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology · Speech Recognition and Synthesis

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Unique citing works14
Citations per year3,5
Citation span2022 - 2026 (5)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 14

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