Articulatory coordination in word-initial clusters of German

Bombien, Lasse; Mooshammer, Christine; Hoole, Phil

doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2013.07.006

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“…On the other hand, the effect on the stop as the second member of the cluster was found to be prominence dependent, so that, for example, the closure duration of the stop was reliably longer only when in the absence of the influence of prominence (i.e., when the syllable was unaccented). A similar result with German consonant clusters was reported by Bombien, Mooshammer, Hoole, and Kühnert () and Bombien, Mooshammer, and Hoole (). They showed that the DIS effect in German was robust on the first consonant, but the effect on the second consonant was limited to either a certain cluster type to an attenuated degree or non‐observable at all, which was arguably because the second member being adjacent to the vowel was subject to the lengthening effect of lexical stress.…”

Section: Domain‐initial (Post‐boundary) Strengtheningsupporting

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Prosodic Boundary Strengthening in the Phonetics–Prosody Interface

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2016

Language and Linguist. Compass

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Prosodic structure has been assumed to serve as a frame for articulation, so that phonetic shaping of abstract phonological representations is fine-tuned as a function of the prosodic system of the language. The intricate relationship between phonetics and prosodic structure has been explored in the literature under the rubric of the phonetics-prosody interface. This paper reviews various aspects of the phonetics-prosody interface and discusses how prosodic structure modulates phonetic realization within and across languages. A particular attention is paid to boundary-related prosodic strengthening (i.e., spatial and/or temporal expansion of articulation that arises in the vicinity of prosodic junctures), especially in association with domain-initial positions (also known as domain-initial strengthening, DIS, effects). Prosodic boundary strengthening is further discussed in terms of how it is language-specifically fine-tuned, how it is understood in dynamical terms, and how it relates to linguistic functions (as syntagmatic vs. paradigmatic contrast enhancement) that are all further conditioned by other factors of the linguistic sound system of individual languages such as the prominence system and the phonetic feature system.

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Section: Domain‐initial (Post‐boundary) Strengtheningsupporting

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Prosodic Boundary Strengthening in the Phonetics–Prosody Interface

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2016

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“…Their effect is strongest at the boundary and decreases with distance from it. It has been suggested previously that this model might also account for prominence-related lengthening ( Byrd & Saltzman, 2003 ; Saltzman et al, 2008 ; Bombien et al, 2010 , 2013 ). It has also been suggested that this model could account for prominence effects in body gestures ( Parrell et al, 2014 ), given that the π-gesture is expected to affect any movement that is controlled by the same clock as speech.…”

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“…Note that C1 OPENDUR and OPENDURACC, and C2 CLOSEDUR and CLOSEDURACC are the movements occurring during the vowel, and are expected to show the strongest effects of prominence. Previous research has found that the effects of prominence decrease further away from the prominence center ( Bombien et al, 2013 for German). While this is not the focus of our study, we include these movements (C1 CLOSEDUR and CLOSEDURACC and C2 OPENDUR and OPENDURACC) to test for evidence of decrease of strength of effect as well.…”

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A Kinematic Study of Prosodic Structure in Articulatory and Manual Gestures: Results from a Novel Method of Data Collection

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Tiede

Tyrone

2017

Laboratory Phonology

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The primary goal of this work is to examine prosodic structure as expressed concurrently through articulatory and manual gestures. Specifically, we investigated the effects of phrase-level prominence (Experiment 1) and of prosodic boundaries (Experiments 2 and 3) on the kinematic properties of oral constriction and manual gestures. The hypothesis guiding this work is that prosodic structure will be similarly expressed in both modalities. To test this, we have developed a novel method of data collection that simultaneously records speech audio, vocal tract gestures (using electromagnetic articulometry) and manual gestures (using motion capture). This method allows us, for the first time, to investigate kinematic properties of body movement and vocal tract gestures simultaneously, which in turn allows us to examine the relationship between speech and body gestures with great precision. A second goal of the paper is thus to establish the validity of this method. Results from two speakers show that manual and oral gestures lengthen under prominence and at prosodic boundaries, indicating that the effects of prosodic structure extend beyond the vocal tract to include body movement.1

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“…The alveolar trill should also be highly constrained due to the fine tuning between tongue tip tension, articulatory configuration, and translingual airflow involved in the execution of one or several fast alveolar contacts (Sol e, 2002). On the other hand, the production of sonorants, i.e., nasals and laterals, ought to be less demanding than that of obstruents and the trill since they allow continuous airflow and exhibit a lower oral pressure level; moreover, a nasal consonant could contribute to the maintenance of the dorsal closure for preceding /k/ in order to facilitate the production of the stop burst by preventing nasal venting during the oral stop (Bombien et al, 2013).…”

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Articulatory reduction and coarticulation in Catalan three-consonant sequences

Recasens

Mira

2015

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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Electropalatographic and acoustic data on Catalan /Ck#C/ sequences where # is a word boundary and /k/ is preceded by /l, s, r/ and followed by /b, m, d, l, n, z, r, ʎ/ were collected in order to test the hypothesis that the velar stop is most prone to be reduced and deleted next to consonants involving high articulatory and aerodynamic demands. Analysis results reveal the absence of a velar stop closure in about half of the sequence tokens, mostly so when /k/ occurs after /s/ and before an oral stop presumably due to the high manner of articulation requirements involved. On the other hand, /Ck#C/ sequences where a /k/ closure period is available show a prominent realization of the velar stop mostly next to /s, z/. This scenario points to two different production mechanisms for three-consonant sequences with contextual obstruents: articulatory reduction and elision, and a slowing down and an increase in articulatory salience, of the velar stop. /Ck#C/ sequences lacking an acoustic closure for /k/ were found to show a residual velar stop articulation which was implemented through an increase in cluster duration and in dorsopalatal contact at the approximate /k/ location in comparison to identical /C#C/ sequences with no /k/.

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Articulatory coordination in word-initial clusters of German

Cited by 30 publications

References 32 publications

Prosodic Boundary Strengthening in the Phonetics–Prosody Interface

Prosodic Boundary Strengthening in the Phonetics–Prosody Interface

A Kinematic Study of Prosodic Structure in Articulatory and Manual Gestures: Results from a Novel Method of Data Collection

Articulatory reduction and coarticulation in Catalan three-consonant sequences

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