Consonant lenition and phonological recategorization

Hualde, José Ignacio; Simonet, Miquel; Nadeu, Marianna

doi:10.1515/labphon.2011.011

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“…Together with previous data on the weakening of Spanish intervocalic voiceless stops [Machuca-Ayuso, 1997;Lewis, 2001;Martínez Celdrán, 2009;Torreira and Ernestus, 2011;Hualde et al, 2011], our findings suggest that the kind of /s/ weakening studied here is probably an instance of a more general lenition process affecting all Spanish intervocalic voiceless obstruents. We now have evidence that several Spanish voiceless obstruents (/p/, /t/, /k/ and /s/) are often realized with uninterrupted voicing when occurring in intervocalic position.…”

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Weakening of Intervocalic /s/ in the Nijmegen Corpus of Casual Spanish

Torreira

Ernestus

2012

Phonetica

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This study describes the weakening of intervocalic /s/ in the Nijmegen Corpus of Casual Spanish and investigates the role of several potential conditioning factors, including morphological, lexical and probabilistic variables. Three acoustic parameters were examined: voicing, the difference in high-band (4-8 kHz) intensity between /s/ and the following vowel, and the duration of the dip in low-band (0-1.5 kHz) intensity in /s/. Over a third of the /s/ consonants exhibited uninterrupted voicing. All three parameters were highly sensitive to speech rate and, less consistently, to prosodic factors such as word position and stress. We also found that /s/ suffixes in redundant morphosyntactic contexts were more prone to weakening than other word-final /s/ segments. Several high-frequency words were particularly prone to weakening, but no general probabilistic effects were observed for factors claimed to favor reduction such as word frequency, contextual predictability or grammatical class. These findings demonstrate the complex variability characteristic of reduction phenomena in spontaneous speech.

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Weakening of Intervocalic /s/ in the Nijmegen Corpus of Casual Spanish

Torreira

Ernestus

2012

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“…Nähtust on palju uuritud romaani keeltes, eriti palju hispaania keeles (nt Duez 1995; Hualde & Simonet et al 2011;Torreira & Ernestus 2011). Enamasti peetakse sellist redutseerumist omaseks helilistele klusiilidele, kuid see esineb ka helitute puhul.…”

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Eesti keele lühikeste klusiilide häälduse variatsioon ja seda mõjutavad tegurid

Ermus

2017

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“…Mixedeffects models including time, stress, and task type were fit to the data to evaluate group-level development, and individual trajectories were also prioritized and analyzed. To capture subtle variation in speakers' production over time and across phonetic envrionments, degree of lenition was computed as a continuous intensity ratio (e.g., Eddington, 2011;Hualde, Simonet, & Nadeu, 2011;Ortega-Llebaria, 2004;Rogers and Alvord, 2014;Shea & Curtin, 2011). The following research questions were addressed:…”

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“…(Hualde, Simonet, & Nadeu, 2011), making it the most stable environment across the many varieties that learners encounter as they study the language. Although Ortega-Llebaria (2004) reported that the vocalic environment did not affect native English and Spanish speakers' production of intervocalic /b/, Colantoni and Marinescu (2010) found that native speakers of Argentinian Spanish produced more lenited variants when /b/ was preceded by a back vowel, such as /u/.…”

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Individual developmental trajectories in the L2 acquisition of Spanish spirantization

Nagle

2017

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In Spanish, voiced stops weaken to approximants and display variables degrees of lenition according to the context in which the stop occurs, making them a complex pronunciation feature. Accumulated findings from cross-sectional research on second language (L2) speakers suggests that many L2 learners struggle to produce the approximants even at the most advanced levels of study. The present study offers a new perspective on the approximants by studying individual learners' production of Spanish [β] over time and across phonetic contexts. Twenty-six Englishspeaking learners of L2 Spanish recorded two speaking tasks five times over a yearlong period corresponding to their second and third semesters of college-level language instruction. Mixedeffects models were fit to learners' C:V intensity ratio data to examine development, and stress and task type were included as substantive predictors. Although the group trajectory was flat, many learners displayed substantial change over time, including positive and negative trajectories.

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Consonant lenition and phonological recategorization

Cited by 101 publications

References 20 publications

Weakening of Intervocalic /s/ in the Nijmegen Corpus of Casual Spanish

Weakening of Intervocalic /s/ in the Nijmegen Corpus of Casual Spanish

Eesti keele lühikeste klusiilide häälduse variatsioon ja seda mõjutavad tegurid

Individual developmental trajectories in the L2 acquisition of Spanish spirantization

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