Effects of phonotactic legality on gestural coordination in consonant clusters: An electromagnetic articulography study

2021 ◽  
Vol 150 (4) ◽  
pp. A189-A189
Author(s):  
Hung-Shao Cheng ◽  
Matthew Masapollo ◽  
Christina Hagedorn ◽  
Adam Buchwald
Keyword(s):  
Consonant Clusters ◽  
Electromagnetic Articulography

scholarly journals Dynamic invariance in the phonetic expression of syllable structure: a case study of Moroccan Arabic consonant clusters

Phonology ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 455-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason A. Shaw ◽  
Adamantios I. Gafos ◽  
Philip Hoole ◽  
Chakir Zeroual
Keyword(s):  
Syllable Structure ◽  
Consonant Clusters ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Electromagnetic Articulography ◽  
Moroccan Arabic

We asked whether invariant phonetic indices for syllable structure can be identified in a language where word-initial consonant clusters, regardless of their sonority profile, are claimed to be parsed heterosyllabically. Four speakers of Moroccan Arabic were recorded, using Electromagnetic Articulography. Pursuing previous work, we employed temporal diagnostics for syllable structure, consisting of static correspondences between any given phonological organisation and its presumed phonetic indices. We show that such correspondences offer only a partial understanding of the relation between syllabic organisation and continuous indices of that organisation. We analyse the failure of the diagnostics and put forth a new approach in which different phonological organisations prescribe different ways in which phonetic indices change as phonetic parameters are scaled. The main finding is that invariance is found in these patterns of change, rather than in static correspondences between phonological constructs and fixed values for their phonetic indices.

scholarly journals Consequences of High Vowel Deletion for Syllabification in Japanese

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Anthony Shaw ◽  
Shigeto Kawahara
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Temporal Stability ◽  
Syllable Structure ◽  
Pitch Accent ◽  
Consonant Clusters ◽  
Electromagnetic Articulography ◽  
Syllable Onset ◽  
Competing Hypotheses ◽  
Vowel Deletion ◽  
High Vowels

High vowels in Japanese devoice between two voiceless consonants; recent work has shown that devoiced /u/ in this environment is also variably deleted. This paper investigates the syllabification of consonant clusters resulting from vowel deletion. We consider two competing hypotheses from the literature: (H1) that consonant clusters are parsed tautosyllabically into a complex syllable onset and (H2) that consonant clusters are parsed heterosyllabically, with the consonant preceding the deleted vowel becoming a syllabic consonant. We bring both phonological and phonetic evidence bear on evaluating these hypotheses. The phonological evidence draws on patterns sensitive to syllable structure including pitch accent placement, loanword truncation, hypocoristic formation, and mimetics. The phonetic evidence comes from patterns of temporal stability in articulatory data collected with ElectroMagnetic Articulography. Both types of evidence provide converging support for H2. 

scholarly journals School-Aged Children’s Production of /s/ and /r/ Consonant Clusters

2009 ◽  
Vol 61 (6) ◽  
pp. 336-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharynne McLeod ◽  
Joanne Arciuli
Keyword(s):  
Consonant Clusters

scholarly journals Acceleration in the bilingual acquisition of phonological structure: Evidence from Polish–English bilingual children

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 713-725 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARCO TAMBURELLI ◽  
EIRINI SANOUDAKI ◽  
GARY JONES ◽  
MICHELLE SOWINSKA
Keyword(s):  
Nonword Repetition ◽  
Bilingual Children ◽  
Consonant Clusters ◽  
Phonological Structure ◽  
English Bilingual ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Phonological Complexity ◽  
Repetition Task ◽  
Selection Of

This study examines the production of consonant clusters in simultaneous Polish–English bilingual children and in language-matched English monolinguals (aged 7;01–8;11). Selection of the language pair was based on the fact that Polish allows a greater range of consonant clusters than English. A nonword repetition task was devised in order to examine clusters of different types (obstruent-liquid vs. s + obstruent) and in different word positions (initial vs. medial), two factors that play a significant role in repetition accuracy in monolingual acquisition (e.g., Kirk & Demuth, 2005). Our findings show that bilingual children outperformed monolingual controls in the word initial s + obstruent condition. These results indicate that exposure to complex word initial clusters (in Polish) can accelerate the development of less phonologically complex clusters (in English). This constitutes significant new evidence that the facilitatory effects of bilingual acquisition extend to structural phonological domains. The implications that these results have on competing views of phonological organisation and phonological complexity are also discussed.

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