Session Phonology:Phonology
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| Phonology-1 |
Regressive voice assimilation in Swedish
Petur Helgason, Uppsala University Catherine Ringen, University of Iowa Paper File |
| This paper examines the occurrence of regressive voice assimilation in Swedish. Six speakers of Central Standard Swedish were recorded and the voicing conditions in stop-fricative and stop-stop clusters were analyzed. The findings indicate that regressive devoicing of lenis stops (/b d g/) occurs only when followed by /t/, but not /s/. This contradicts claims in the literature regarding the nature of regressive voice assimilation in Swedish. These findings also demonstrate the necessity of doing detailed acoustic analysis of stop production in order to ascertain the details of the phonological distribution of stop variants. | |
| Phonology-2 |
CROSS-LANGUAGE DIFFERENCES IN OVERLAP AND ASSIMILATION PATTERNS IN KOREAN AND RUSSIAN
Alexei Kochetov, Simon Fraser University, Haskins Laboratories Marianne Pouplier, University of Edinburgh, Haskins Laboratories Minjung Son, Yale University, Haskins Laboratories Paper File |
| This paper investigates cross-linguistic differences in gestural overlap in consonant clusters and discusses how different patterns of overlap may interact with language-specific place assimilation patterns. We examine Russian and Korean stop-stop sequences within and across words, produced at two speaking rates. Significant differences in degrees of overlap emerge between the two languages for both prosodic conditions. We discuss to what extent language-specific differences in overlap can be linked to the language-specific propensity for articulatory place assimilation. | |
| Phonology-3 |
ti~chi CONTRAST PRESERVATION IN JAPANESE LOANS PARASTIC ON SEGMENTAL CUES TO PROSODIC STRUCTURE
Jason Shaw, New York University Paper File |
| Acoustic analysis of /ti/ tokens produced in native words across a range of phonetic environments by two generations of Japanese speakers reveals a systematic influence of prosodic structure on the duration of frication following the release of consonant closure. The range of frication durations conditioned by prosodic structure in native words is partitioned into lexically contrastive sequences, ti~chi, in loanwords. Within speaker comparisons of words borrowed at different time periods suggests that this new contrast emerged, for some speakers, during adulthood. Implications of the data for a phonological theory of loanword adaptation are discussed. | |
| Phonology-4 |
A NOTE ON THE INFLUENCE OF LOUIS HJELMSLEV’S SUPRASEGMENTAL PHONOLOGY
Stefano Canalis, University of Padova Paper File |
| Louis Hjelmslev's presence in the history of phonology, usually deemed very marginal, can at least in part be re-evaluated under the light of little known references to the Dane linguist, which suggest that his early concern for suprasegmental units did not pass unnoticed by other phonologists. Among the phonologists in a way or another likely influenced by Hjelmslev, figure Firth who probably took from Hjelmslev the term 'prosody' and showed other similarities with his ideas, and several classic works on the nature and status of the syllable (Kuryłowicz, Hockett, Fudge); one of Greenberg's phonological universals is derived from Hjelmslev. John Anderson's 'structural analogy' owes much to Hjelmslev's thinking, and Malmberg was influenced by Hjelmslev in several respects too. Moreover, Hjelmslev anticipated some much recent proposals, in particular with regard to the suprasegmental domain. | |
| Phonology-5 |
Compensatory Lengthening in Persian
Vahid Sadeghi, Iran Telecommunication Research Center & Takestan Islamic Azad University Mahmoud Bijankhan, Tehran University Paper File |
| It is commonly held that Persian glottal consonants in syllable coda undergo vowel lengthening [12], [13]. Some questions have been arised, however, concerning the phonological operations involved in CL. One view suggests that glottal allophonic weakening is compensated by vowel lengthening. Another view holds that CL involves the deletion of a coda glottal consonant followed by the lengthening of the adjacent nucleus vowel. There is a third view which suggests that CL is a gradient process in which different magnitude of glottal gesture is realized in speech from a weak through complete deletion of glottals. Using spectral tilt values, as defined by two measurements H1-H2 and H1-F1, I suggest that CL involves allophonic reduction of glottal gesture, which causes more length for the preceding vowel on the ground that glottals attain a gesture much similar to a vowel. | |