TY  - JOUR
A1  - Sotiropoulou, Stavroula
A1  - Gibson, Mark
A1  - Gafos, Adamantios I.
T1  - Global organization in Spanish onsets
JF  - Journal of phonetics
N2  - This paper addresses the relation between syllable structure and inter-segmental temporal coordination. The data examined are Electromagnetic Articulometry recordings from six speakers of Central Peninsular Spanish (henceforth, Spanish), producing words beginning with the clusters /pl, bl, kl, gl, p(sic), k(sic), t(sic)/ as well as corresponding unclustered sonorant-initial words in three vowel contexts /a, e, o/. In our results, we find evidence for a global organization of the segments involved in these combinations. This is reflected in a number of ways: shortening of the prevocalic sonorant in the cluster-initial case compared to the unclustered case, reorganization of the relative timing of the internal CV subsequence (in a CCV) in the obstruent-lateral context, early vowel initiation, and a strong compensatory relation between the duration of the obstruent-to-lateral transition and the duration of the lateral. In other words, we find that the global organization presiding over the segments partaking in these tautosyllabic CCVs is pleiotropic, that is, simultaneously expressed over a set of different phonetic parameters rather than via a privileged metric such as c-center stability or any other such given single measure (employed in prior works).
KW  - syllables
KW  - inter-segmental coordination
KW  - Central Peninsular Spanish
KW  - obstruent-lateral clusters
KW  - obstruent-rhotic clusters
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2020.100995
SN  - 0095-4470
VL  - 82
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bürki-Foschini, Audrey Damaris
A1  - Viebahn, Malte Clemens
A1  - Gafos, Adamantios I.
T1  - Plasticity and transfer in the sound system
BT  - exposure to syllables in production or perception changes their subsequent production
JF  - Language, cognition and neuroscience
N2  - This study focuses on the ability of the adult sound system to reorganise as a result of experience. Participants were exposed to existing and novel syllables in either a listening task or a production task over the course of two days. On the third day, they named disyllabic pseudowords while their electroencephalogram was recorded. The first syllable of these pseudowords had either been trained in the auditory modality, trained in production or had not been trained. The EEG response differed between existing and novel syllables for untrained but not for trained syllables, indicating that training novel sound sequences modifies the processes involved in the production of these sequences to make them more similar to those underlying the production of existing sound sequences. Effects of training on the EEG response were observed both after production training and mere auditory exposure.
KW  - Language production
KW  - EEG
KW  - syllables
KW  - phonetic encoding
KW  - transfer
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2020.1782445
SN  - 2327-3798
SN  - 2327-3801
VL  - 35
IS  - 10
SP  - 1371
EP  - 1393
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  -