The Relationship between the Perception and Production of Coarticulation during a Sound Change in Progress

2011 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felicitas Kleber ◽  
Jonathan Harrington ◽  
Ulrich Reubold
Keyword(s):  
Sound Change ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Exploring the role of token frequency in phonological change: evidence from TH-Fronting in east-central Scotland

2009 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
LYNN CLARK ◽  
GRAEME TROUSDALE
Keyword(s):  
Word Frequency ◽  
Sound Change ◽  
Exact Nature ◽  
Lexical Frequency ◽  
East Central ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Motivating Factor ◽  
Phonological Change ◽  
The Relationship

Recent research on frequency effects in phonology suggests that word frequency is often a significant motivating factor in the spread of sound change through the lexicon. However, there is conflicting evidence regarding the exact nature of the relationship between phonological change and word frequency. This article investigates the role of lexical frequency in the spread of the well-known sound change TH-Fronting in an under-researched dialect area in east-central Scotland. Using data from a corpus of conversations compiled over a two-year period by the first author, we explore how the process of TH-Fronting is complicated in this community by the existence of certain local variants which are lexically restricted, and we question to what extent the frequency patterns that are apparent in these data are consistent with generalisations made in the wider literature on the relationship between lexical frequency and phonological change.

scholarly journals Wanci dan Binongko sebagai Dialek yang Berkerabat dalam Bahasa Wakatobi

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 90-97
Author(s):  
Nila Puspita Sari
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Field Data ◽  
Sound Change ◽  
The Relationship

Sound change happens in a language even a dialect sincronically or diachronically will create one or more language or dialect variations. This study aims at:1) to determine the relationship between Wanci and Binongko dialect, 2) to descibe lingistic eviedences which suppoort act of determining the relationship between those dialect. This study is a dialectology research by using quantitative and qualitative method. The source of data in this study was based on field  data by doing a direct interview to 487 basic words, 37 possessive phrases dan 16 both transitive and question clauses. The end of this research shows that based on statistic measure by using dialectometry, Wanci and Binongko isolects have relationship in sub-dialect level with percentage about 46.65%. Besides, qualitative analysis by identifying retention and innovation in linguistics features, there is no significant differences between those sub-dialects. Furthermore, linguistics features, they are phonology, morphology and syntax can be applied as evidence in determining the relationship between or among dialects and sub-dialects.

scholarly journals Bantu Lexical Reconstruction

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koen Bostoen ◽  
Yvonne Bastin
Keyword(s):  
Historical Linguistic ◽  
Language Contact ◽  
Historical Linguistics ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Sound Change ◽  
Intermediate Step ◽  
Historical Overview ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Phonological Reconstruction ◽  
The Relationship

Lexical reconstruction has been an important enterprise in Bantu historical linguistics since the earliest days of the discipline. In this chapter a historical overview is provided of the principal scholarly contributions to that field of study. It is also explained how the Comparative Method has been and can be applied to reconstruct ancestral Bantu vocabulary via the intermediate step of phonological reconstruction and how the study of sound change needs to be completed with diachronic semantics in order to correctly reconstruct both the form and the meaning of etymons. Finally, some issues complicating this type of historical linguistic research, such as “osculance” due to prehistoric language contact, are addressed, as well as the relationship between reconstruction and classification.

Optionality, lexicality and sound change

1997 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-130
Author(s):  
PRAMOD KUMAR PANDEY
Keyword(s):  
Sound Change ◽  
The Other ◽  
Standard Assumption ◽  
Word Level ◽  
Rule Application ◽  
The One ◽  
Modular Principles ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Lexical Phonology

This paper investigates the relationship between variability and lexicality on the one hand and sound change on the other within the theory of Lexical Phonology. The former leads to the proposal of the Optionality Constraint (OC), which prohibits the application of optional rules in the lexical module. The constraint is found to be violated at the word level. The violation of OC as well as of other lexical modular principles is accounted for by the help of a new licensing principle, called the Polarity Principle. This allows for interacting modules to have different properties of representation and rule application at their opposite ends. The OC leads to a resolution of the Neogrammarian Controversy, that is consonant with the standard assumption concerning sound change, namely, the inherent relation between the latter and variability.

scholarly journals The Canadian Shift: Still shifting?

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Céleste Peterka
Keyword(s):  
Native Speakers ◽  
Sound Change ◽  
Previous Literature ◽  
Ongoing Study ◽  
Canadian English ◽  
Time Data ◽  
The Relationship

Previous literature on the Canadian Shift describes this phenomenon as a change in progress in many dialects of Canadian English. However, elements of the shift are not found to be consistent, particularly in the lowering of [ɪ] and [ɛ] and the retraction of [æ]. This paper investigates apparent time data from eight native speakers of Canadian English from the Ottawa area to investigate the nature of the Shift in the region, as well as to better understand how the Shift is manifested here compared to previous literature. Results presented in this paper, which were collected as part of an ongoing study, show that younger speakers produce only [ɪ] and [ɛ] vowels more retracted than older speakers. These data will later be compared to results of a perception study in order to investigate the relationship between perception and production of a sound change in progress.

scholarly journals A VOCALIZAÇÃO DA LATERAL PÓS-VOCÁLICA COMO FENÔMENO NEOGRAMÁTICO DO NÍVEL PÓS-LEXICAL

Organon ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 18 (36) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristine Ferreira Costa
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Sound Change ◽  
Porto Alegre ◽  
Geometrical Representation ◽  
Lateral Segment ◽  
The Relationship

In this paper, we examine the postlexical status of the process of vocalization of /l/ inBrazilian Portuguese. We present a characterization of this type of sound change based on statisticalresults taken from the quantitative analysis of spoken language. Our sample consists of 12 interviewsof people living in Porto Alegre. First, the geometrical representation of the lateral segment and ofthe process of vocalization is analyzed. Secondly, we discuss the lexical/postlexical status of thevocalization process according to the hypothesis of the Neogrammarian Controversy resolution asproposed in Labov (1981) and reworked in Kiparsky (1988) and Labov (1994). Finally, we alsodiscuss the opacity of the relationship between the processes of /l/ vocalization and ofmonophthongization of /ow/ diphthong.

scholarly journals The relationship between prosodic weakening and sound change: evidence from the German tense/lax vowel contrast

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Harrington ◽  
Felicitas Kleber ◽  
Ulrich Reubold ◽  
Jessica Siddins
Keyword(s):  
Sound Change ◽  
The Other ◽  
Minimal Pairs ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Vowel Contrast ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Target Words

AbstractThe study tests a model of sound change based on how prosodic weakening affects shortening in polysyllabic words. Twenty-nine L1-German speakers produced minimal pairs differing in vowel tensity in both monosyllables /zakt, zaːkt/ and disyllables /zaktə, zaːktə/. The target words were produced in accented and deaccented contexts. The duration ratio between the vowel and the following /kt/ cluster was less for lax than tense vowels and less for disyllables than monosyllables. Under deaccentuation, there was an approximation of tense and lax vowels towards each other but no influence due to the mono- vs. disyllabic difference. On the other hand, Gaussian /a/ vs. /aː/ classifications of these data showed a lesser influence due to the syllable count in deaccented words. Compatibly, when the same speakers as listeners classified synthetic

scholarly journals Perceptual learning, talker specificity, and sound change

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 90-122
Author(s):  
Meredith Tamminga ◽  
Robert Wilder ◽  
Wei Lai ◽  
Lacey Wade
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Perceptual Learning ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Sound Change ◽  
Change Models ◽  
Speech Input ◽  
Same Gender ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Learning Generalization

Perceptual learning is when listeners hear novel speech input and shift their subsequent perceptual behavior. In this paper we consider the relationship between sound change and perceptual learning. We spell out the connections we see between perceptual learning and different approaches to sound change and explain how a deeper empirical understanding of the properties of perceptual learning might benefit sound change models. We propose that questions about when listeners generalize their perceptual learning to new talkers might be of of particular interest to theories of sound change. We review the relevant literature, noting that studies of perceptual learning generalization across talkers of the same gender are lacking. Finally, we present new experimental data aimed at filling that gap by comparing cross-talker generalization of fricative boundary perceptual learning in same-gender and different-gender pairs. We find that listeners are much more likely to generalize what they have learned across same-gender pairs, even when the different-gender pairs have more similar fricatives. We discuss implications for sound change.

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