Phonological contrast and phonetic variation
The case of velars in Iwaidja
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7900206 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jason A Shaw (0000-0002-5285-5049), Christopher Carignan (0000-0002-1565-3691), Tonya G Agostini, Robert Mailhammer (0000-0003-0628-9813), Mark Harvey (0000-0001-9901-9921), Donald Derrick (0000-0002-0519-7565) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 96 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 578-617 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| 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.2020.0042 |
| OpenAlex | W3088280314 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 38 |
2020, Linguistic Society of America. All rights reserved. A field-based ultrasound and acoustic study of Iwaidja, an endangered Australian Aboriginal language, investigates the phonetic identity of nonnasal velar consonants in intervocalic position, where past work has proposed a [+continuant] vs. [−continuant] phonemic contrast. We analyze the putative contrast within a continuous phonetic space, defined by both acoustic and articulatory parameters, and find gradient variation: from more consonantal realizations, such as [ɰ], to more vocalic realizations, such as [a]. The distribution of realizations across lexical items and speakers does not support the proposed phonemic contrast. This case illustrates how lenition that is both phonetically gradient and variable across speakers and words can give the illusion of a contextu-ally restricted phonemic contrast
Acoustic Phonetics · Contrast (vision · Linguistics · Phonetics · Physics · Speech recognition · Variation (astronomy · Vowel · Artificial Intelligence · Australian Indigenous Culture and History · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |