Consonant lenition as a sociophonetic variable in Murrinh Patha (Australia)

Mansfield, John

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“…There are even fewer studies of Australian languages that have investigated effects of flanking vowel quality on lenition outcomes. Mansfield (2015) reports that following vowel quality was not statistically significant in his study of /p/ and /k/ lenition in the Australian language Murrinh Patha once lexical item was included as a random effect.…”

Section: Flanking Vowel Qualitymentioning

confidence: 98%

“…In terms of positional factors, word initial lenition is generally dispreferred, although some Australian languages have lenited allophones in word-initial position (Blevins, 2001). Lenition has been correlated with stress in Murrinh Patha (Mansfield, 2015) and Yir Yoront (Alpher, 1988). Most reports of allophony are impressionistic; however, Ingram et al (2008) investigate spectrographic data to identify a range of connected speech processes involving reduction in Warlpiri, a Ngumpin-Yapa language related to Gurindji.…”

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“…These include: Stop voicing, trilling, nasal weakening, vocalization, deletion, nasal-stop cluster reduction, and labialization. Other than Ingram et al (2008), much of the instrumental phonetic work conducted on Australian languages has focused either on place of articulation (Bundgaard-Nielsen et al, 2012, 2015Butcher, 1995;Tabain, 2009;Tabain & Butcher, 2015) or on those few languages that contrast two series of stops (Butcher, 2004;B. Evans & Merlan, 2004;McKay, 1980;Stoakes et al, 2007).…”

Section: Front Central Backmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The accepted path for this phonological re-organization is an intermediate stage of stop-glide lenition affecting the lenis peripheral and laminal stops (Dixon, 2002). Similarly, in the synchronic domain, Mansfield's (2015) sociophonetic study of lenition in Murrinh Patha notes that peripheral stops are more prone to lenite to approximants than coronal stops. Finally, cross-linguistic surveys of morphophonological alternations similarly demonstrate that peripheral and pre-palatal obstruents undergo lenition more frequently than their apical counterparts (Round, 2010).…”

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“…In one dimension, they host an abundance of place of articulation contrasts, particularly in the coronal region, and these are increasingly well understood (Anderson & Maddieson, 1994;Bundgaard-Nielsen et al, 2012, 2015Butcher, 1995;Proctor et al, 2010;Tabain & Butcher, 2015;Tabain & Rickard, 2007). In all other dimensions, they are impoverished: Most possess just a single obstruent series, with no contrast in laryngeal features, length, or between stops and fricatives (Busby, 1980;Evans, 1995).…”

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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 their articulatory targets. The degree of stop lenition is found to vary widely. Contrary to expectations, no evidence is found of a positive effect on lenition due to word-medial (relative to word-initial) position, beyond that attributable to duration; nor do non-coronals lenite more than their apical counterparts, which freely lenite along a continuum towards taps. No significant effect is found of preceding or following vocalic environment. Taken together, the observed lenition, duration, and peak intensity velocities are argued to be inconsistent with a single, fully-occluded articulatory 'stop' target which is undershot at short durations, rather targets can be understood to span a range or 'window' of values in the sense of Keating (1990), from fully-occluded stop-like targets to more approximantlike targets. It is an open question to what degree the patterns found in Gurindji are language particular, or can be related to the organization of obstruent systems in Australian languages more broadly. Precisely comparable studies of additional languages will be especially valuable in addressing these questions and others, and are possible using the method we introduce.

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Section: Flanking Vowel Qualitymentioning

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Section: Front Central Backmentioning

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Section: Front Central Backmentioning

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Latino English varieties, especially Mexican American English (henceforth MxAE), have received a considerable amount of research over the past six decades. In spite of that, they are still poorly understood in most respects. The reasons are numerous: most of the research has consisted of studies of limited scope, a fair amount of it was published in obscure venues, the issues of Spanish maintenance and of code switching often seem to overshadow Latino English in research efforts, Latino communities are widely dispersed across the United States, and there is a host of social issues that complicate exploration of Latino language varieties even as they enrich it. One aim of this book is to help rectify the weak understanding of Latino Englishes and MxAE.We cannot aspire to answer every possible question about Latino Englishes or even MxAE by itself. No study could address the entire myriad of such issues. In addition to clarifying issues regarding Latino Englishes, however, a second aim we aspire to accomplish is to draw scholarship on Latino Englishes into the more general body of research on language transfer and new dialect formation. To do so, it is necessary to take a primarily linguistic perspective, with the development of linguistic variables as the primary focus. Several groundbreaking studies, notably Mendoza-Denton (1997, 2008), Fought (1999, 2003), and Eckert (2008b, have taken a micro-variation approach, examining how patterning of specific linguistic variables in Latino communities is intricately tied to interpersonal networks and individuals' identity construction. These studies have provided vital insights. Here, however, we focus on the language as a whole and how it evolves from a collection of interference features to a stable dialect. Studies of substrate influences on languages typically focus, as the present study does, on linguistic features, appealing to social 1

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Consonant lenition as a sociophonetic variable in Murrinh Patha (Australia)

Cited by 29 publications

References 31 publications

A replicable acoustic measure of lenition and the nature of variability in Gurindji stops

A replicable acoustic measure of lenition and the nature of variability in Gurindji stops

In quest of a new identity? Language variation in Sabah

Mexican American English

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