Effect of Age and Gender on Articulation of Voiced and Voiceless Stop Consonants in Czech

Kanok, Martin; Novotný, Michal

doi:10.14311/ctj.2019.3.05

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“…As opposed to Standard Middle/Northern German with moderate degrees of word-initial aspiration (Jessen and Ringen 2002), Austrian German is generally classified as non-aspirated or weakly aspirated in the majority of phonological and stylistic contexts (Bürkle 1995;Muhr 2007;Wiesinger 2009). Czech VOTs are typically in the short-lag VOT domain of approximately 14-32 ms (Skarnitzl 2011;Kaňok and Novotný 2019). The lack of aspiration in word-initial plosives in Austrian and Czech learners of English results in the typical low-aspirated foreign language (L2) English varieties encountered in speakers from Austria and the Czech Republic.…”

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Diffusion of Phonetic Updates within Phonological Neighborhoods

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2022

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Phonological neighborhood density is known to influence lexical access, speech production and perception processes. Lexical competition is considered the central concept from which the neighborhood effect emanates: highly competitive neighborhoods are characterized by large degrees of phonemic co-activation, which can delay speech recognition and facilitate speech production. The study investigates phonetic learning in English as a foreign language in relation to phonological neighborhood density and onset density to see if dense or sparse neighborhoods are more conducive to the incorporation of novel phonetic detail. Also, the effect of voice-contrasted minimal pairs is explored. The results indicate that sparser neighborhoods with weaker lexical competition provide the most optimal phonological environment for phonetic learning. Moreover, novel phonetic details are incorporated faster in neighborhoods without minimal pairs. The results indicate that lexical competition plays a role in the dissemination of phonetic updates in the lexicon of foreign language learners.

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Diffusion of Phonetic Updates within Phonological Neighborhoods

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2022

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Multiple bursts in non-native and native English: Evidence from twelve L1s

Barrera-Pardo

2023

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Voiceless plosives are frequently produced with multiple bursts (MBs), a phenomenon that has substantial implications for voice onset time measurement (VOT) of these consonants. MBs have been noted in previous research, but have not been systematically quantified. The objective of this study was to analyze MBs in non-native English (with data from twelve first languages) and native English, and to discern the effect of MBs on VOT measurement. Further, the potential effects of place of articulation (PoA), gender, speech rate, and age on MBs were explored. Results showed that VOT measurement method in the presence of MBs had a significant effect on the VOT values obtained for the plosives. In addition, MBs were influenced to a large extent by PoA, but not by gender, speech rate, or age. Comparisons between non-native English and native English revealed some significant differences, but in both varieties the analyses of MBs showed overall similar tendencies.

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Effect of Age and Gender on Articulation of Voiced and Voiceless Stop Consonants in Czech

Cited by 2 publications

References 22 publications

Diffusion of Phonetic Updates within Phonological Neighborhoods

Diffusion of Phonetic Updates within Phonological Neighborhoods

Multiple bursts in non-native and native English: Evidence from twelve L1s

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