Aspirated stop consonants before low vowels, a problem of delimitation - its causes and consequences

Fischer‐Jørgensen, Eli; Hutters, Birgit

doi:10.7146/aripuc.v15i.131752

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“…A total of 216 tokens (18 test words × 2 speakers × 6 repetitions) were recorded. Thus, this study invoked the segmentation criteria used in Fischer-Jørgensen and Hutters (1981) . For each speaker, three utterances without any editing were selected for each test word and only the test word sections in these utterances (totally 108: 18 test words × 3 selected utterances × 2 speakers) were segmented from carrier sentences as stimuli 2 .…”

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“…The range and step size of the stimuli continuum were from 15 to 60% in 5% increments, depending on the results of a pilot experiment. The experiment 2 also invoked the segmentation criteria used in Fischer-Jørgensen and Hutters (1981) . All synthesized sounds were normalized to 65 dB, and 500 ms of white noise was added before and after all synthesized sounds.…”

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Perception of Japanese singleton and geminate contrasts: A case of Chinese learners with different dialectal backgrounds

Ren

2022

Front. Psychol.

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It is widely accepted that the Japanese language is mora-timed, and the geminate obstruent, one of the three special morae in the Japanese language, forms one independent mora. Many studies have shown that perceiving Japanese geminates accurately is especially problematic for learners of Japanese. This study examines the perception of Japanese singleton and geminate contrasts by Chinese learners of Japanese (CLJ) from different dialectal backgrounds and contrasts their perception with Japanese native speakers (JNS). This study conducted two experiments. First, non-synthesized stimuli were used to test each group of participants’ perceptual sensitivity of Japanese singletons and geminates. Second, the categorical perception was accessed by adopting stimuli in which the ratio of constriction duration to entire word duration (CD/EWD) was synthesized from 15 to 60%. Results show that, although learners of Japanese had significantly lower perception levels compared to JNS regardless of their group differences (e.g., L1 background, Japanese language proficiency, etc.), they still experienced some positive transfers of L1 to achieve better perception performance. The results also suggest that CD/EWD can be considered a reliable local cue for both JNS and CLJ in categorizing Japanese singletons and geminates. In addition, the results demonstrate that variables such as medial consonant type and the learner’s Japanese proficiency affect the perception of Japanese singleton and geminate contrasts.

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Perception of Japanese singleton and geminate contrasts: A case of Chinese learners with different dialectal backgrounds

Ren

2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…An autocorrelation method (20 ms frame length and 20 ms ame advance) was used to calculate F0 for the entire dm'ation of the vowel la 1/. The start of the vowel was taken from the start of the voicing for /o:/ following lb k dal, as determined by the onset of periodic excitation of F2/F3 [23,24].…”

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Vocal Characteristics: A Developmental Study

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HODGSON

2024

Speech and Hearing 1998

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“…Specifically, we follow Schachtenhaufen (forthcoming) in transcribing the 1 An exception is that Danish plosives may be voiced inter-vocalically. This has long been assumed to be essentially a categorical phonological process (Fischer-Jørgensen 1954Fischer-Jørgensen and Hutters 1981), but has recently been shown to be much less frequent than previously thought (Puggaard-Rode, Horslund, and Jørgensen forthcoming).…”

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A phonetically-based phoneme analysis of the Danish consonant system

Horslund

Puggaard-Rode

Jørgensen

2022

Acta Linguistica Hafniensia

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The traditional phoneme analysis of the Danish consonant inventory links onset and coda consonants on the basis of historical alternations and morphologically conditioned alternations within a small subset of the Danish lexicon. This traditional analysis proposes a system resulting in a large number of neutralizations that cannot be dissolved, and in which allophones of the same phoneme lack shared phonetic content. We argue that the system proposed by the traditional analysis is impossible to learn from the language input, which renders the analysis an implausible description of the Danish consonant system. On the basis of theoretical discussions, we offer an alternative phoneme analysis, which we believe to be learnable from the data available in the language input. Our analysis is based on insights from Natural Phonology and Bidirectional Phonetics and Phonology. We propose a system without undissolvable neutralizations, with shared phonetic content between allophones of the same phoneme, and without the need to rely on alternations that children are unlikely to learn in early childhood.

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Aspirated stop consonants before low vowels, a problem of delimitation - its causes and consequences

Cited by 11 publications

References 4 publications

Perception of Japanese singleton and geminate contrasts: A case of Chinese learners with different dialectal backgrounds

Perception of Japanese singleton and geminate contrasts: A case of Chinese learners with different dialectal backgrounds

Vocal Characteristics: A Developmental Study

A phonetically-based phoneme analysis of the Danish consonant system

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