Global organization in Spanish onsets
- 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 CCVsThis 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).…
Author details: | Stavroula SotiropoulouORCiDGND, Mark GibsonORCiD, Adamantios I. GafosORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2020.100995 |
ISSN: | 0095-4470 |
Title of parent work (English): | Journal of phonetics |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Place of publishing: | London |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2020/08/25 |
Publication year: | 2020 |
Release date: | 2024/01/12 |
Tag: | Central Peninsular Spanish; inter-segmental coordination; obstruent-lateral clusters; obstruent-rhotic clusters; syllables |
Volume: | 82 |
Article number: | 100995 |
Number of pages: | 22 |
Funding institution: | European Research Council (AdG)European Research Council (ERC) [249440]; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)German; Research Foundation (DFG) [317633480 - SFB 1287] |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
DDC classification: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 414 Phonologie, Phonetik | |
Peer review: | Referiert |