2017
DOI: 10.5334/labphon.18
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A replicable acoustic measure of lenition and the nature of variability in Gurindji stops

Abstract: An automated method is presented for the commensurable, reproducible measurement of duration and lenition of segment types ranging from fully occluded stops to highly lenited variants, in acoustic data. The method is motivated with respect to the relationship between acoustic and articulatory phonetics and, through subsequent evaluation, is argued to correspond well to articulation. It is then applied to the phonemic stops of casual speech in Gurindji (Pama-Nyungan, Australia) to investigate the nature of thei… Show more

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“…Although lenition patterns have been described in hundreds of languages (e.g., Kirchner, 1998;Lavoie, 2001), fundamental questions about the nature of these patterns are still a topic of debate in the phonetic and phonological literature. Several recent studies address the question of how best to describe, measure, and quantify lenition in phonetic terms (e.g., Kingston, 2008;Hualde, Simonet, & Nadeu, 2011;Warner & Tucker, 2011;Bouavichith & Davidson, 2013;Ennever, Meakins, & Round, 2017;Cohen Priva & Gleason, 2019). Understanding the functional nature of lenition and its place in phonological grammar requires that we first understand what lenition does to sounds; while there is broad agreement that lenition tends to shorten consonants and render them louder or more vowel-like, there is limited consensus on the most principled ways to measure these properties.…”
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“…Although lenition patterns have been described in hundreds of languages (e.g., Kirchner, 1998;Lavoie, 2001), fundamental questions about the nature of these patterns are still a topic of debate in the phonetic and phonological literature. Several recent studies address the question of how best to describe, measure, and quantify lenition in phonetic terms (e.g., Kingston, 2008;Hualde, Simonet, & Nadeu, 2011;Warner & Tucker, 2011;Bouavichith & Davidson, 2013;Ennever, Meakins, & Round, 2017;Cohen Priva & Gleason, 2019). Understanding the functional nature of lenition and its place in phonological grammar requires that we first understand what lenition does to sounds; while there is broad agreement that lenition tends to shorten consonants and render them louder or more vowel-like, there is limited consensus on the most principled ways to measure these properties.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This paper explores consonant lenition in a corpus of field recordings of Campidanese (also called Campidanian) Sardinian, a language with complex lenition patterns that interact with voicing, manner, and length contrasts (Virdis, 1978;Bolognesi, 1998). We show that the duration and change-in-intensity algorithm devised by Ennever et al (2017) can be fruitfully extended to a different language and to a more heterogeneous corpus.…”
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