Review of The Sound Pattern of English.

1992 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-269
Author(s):  
Terri Gullickson
Keyword(s):  
Sound Pattern

Glottalization and linking in the L2 speech of Czech learners of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese

2021 ◽  
pp. 026765832110158
Author(s):  
Radek Skarnitzl ◽  
Petr Čermák ◽  
Pavel Šturm ◽  
Zora Obstová ◽  
Jan Hricsina
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression Model ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Mixed Effects ◽  
Lexical Stress ◽  
The Other ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Romance Languages ◽  
Short Text ◽  
Sound Pattern ◽  
Frequent Use

The use of linking or glottalization contributes to the characteristic sound pattern of a language, and the use of one in place of the other may affect a speaker’s comprehensibility and fluency in certain contexts. In this study, native speakers of Czech, a language that is associated with a frequent use of glottalization in vowel-initial word onsets, are examined in the second language (L2) context of three Romance languages that predominantly employ linking between words (Spanish, Italian and Portuguese). In total, 29 native speakers and 51 non-native learners were asked to read a short text in the respective language. The learners were divided into two groups based on their experience with the target language. A number of other factors were examined in a mixed-effects logistic regression model (segmental context, lexical stress, prosodic breaks, and the semantic status of the words). The main results show that, regardless of the target language, the more experienced (ME) learners displayed significantly lower rates of glottalization than the less experienced (LE) learners, but significantly higher rates than native speakers. The pedagogical implications of the results are discussed.

Prolegomena to a Theory of the Sound Pattern of the First Spoken Language

Phonetica ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 51 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 184-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter F. MacNeilage
Keyword(s):  
Spoken Language ◽  
Sound Pattern

scholarly journals Word-final consonant epenthesis in Northeastern Nigerian English

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
DMITRY IDIATOV
Keyword(s):  
Positive Bias ◽  
Consonant Cluster ◽  
Sound Pattern ◽  
Unusual Phenomenon ◽  
Inner Circle

L2 speakers of Nigerian English in parts of northeastern Nigeria occasionally insert an alveolar coronal stop [t] or fricative [s] following another alveolar coronal pre-pausally and phrase-internally. The article discusses this typologically unusual phenomenon for the Nigerian English of speakers whose L1 is the Adamawa language Bena (ISO 639-3: yun). I also consider comparable cases of word-final consonant epenthesis in several other varieties of English, both the so-called New Englishes and Inner Circle varieties, and provide an account of the details of epenthesis with respect to which they differ. At first sight, hypercorrection of the tendency for word-final consonant cluster simplification in Bena English may seem an obvious explanation. However, I argue that hypercorrection alone falls short of explaining the observed pattern. In addition, we need to call on phonetic properties of Bena L1 such as pre-pausal glottalisation and lengthening of consonants to be able to account for both the actuation of the hypercorrection and the phonologisation of the epenthesis. Although the availability of a clear phonetic explanation makes this sound pattern conceivable as a natural rule, its typological rarity in non-contact lects highlights the positive bias induced by hypercorrection as a necessary part of the mix in creating the conditions for a reanalysis.

scholarly journals Metathesis of aspiration as the source of anticipatory voicelessness in Basque

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-279
Author(s):  
Ander Egurtzegi
Keyword(s):  
Sound Pattern ◽  
Historical Series ◽  
Before And After

ABSTRACTIn Basque, there is evidence, especially in early loans from Latin, that a sequence #DV(R)T… where D is a voiced stop and T is a voiceless (aspirated) stop was optionally produced with devoicing of the first of these stops. An additional particularity of this sound pattern is that the devoiced word-initial stop typically surfaces with aspiration, while the previously aspirated stop loses it: #DV(R)T(h)… > #T(h)V(R)T… This typologically uncommon sound pattern has been described as assimilation of voicelessness in the literature, or spread of [-voiced]. I propose that this sound pattern is triggered by aspiration, not voicelessness, and that it is a case of metathesis, not assimilation. Under the proposed analysis, aspiration of the second stop in the word is reanalysed as originating in the first stop, an instance of perceptual metathesis. This approach accounts for the distribution of aspirated stops before and after the optional change, and the failure of post-sibilant stops to trigger. This account also has implications for the chronology of aspiration-loss in Western dialects: at the time the earliest Latin loans were borrowed, all Basque dialects still maintained a historical series of aspirated stops. Only later, after this process of optional metathesis, did the Western dialects lose *h and stop aspiration.

scholarly journals The sound pattern of Standard Italian, as compared with the varieties spoken in Florence, Milan and Rome

2005 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pier Marco Bertinetto ◽  
Michele Loporcaro
Keyword(s):  
Local Varieties ◽  
Sound Pattern ◽  
Language Courses ◽  
Primary Reference ◽  
Salient Features ◽  
Characteristic Features

This paper is a condensed presentation of the phonetics and phonology of Standard Italian, compared to the most prestigious local accents, viz. those of Florence, Milan and Rome. Historically based on the Florentine pronunciation, and traditionally identified with it, Standard Italian is nowadays used by trained speakers such as stage actors and (but less and less so) radio and TV speakers. The present paper aims at depicting the most salient features of Standard Italian, still a matter of primary reference in language courses, comparing them with the characteristic features of the three most prominent local varieties, with which the foreign learner is most likely to be confronted. All traditional (and sometimes widely debated) issues of Italian phonetics/phonology are addressed in the most ecumenical setting possible.

Binaural advantage for sound pattern identification

1994 ◽  
Vol 95 (5) ◽  
pp. 2916-2916
Author(s):  
Gerald Kidd ◽  
Christine R. Mason ◽  
Tanya L. Rohtla
Keyword(s):  
Pattern Identification ◽  
Sound Pattern

The Sound Pattern of Ancient Greek. Alan H. Sommerstein

1979 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 266-267
Author(s):  
Gregory Nagy
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Sound Pattern
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