Language-specific patterns of vowel-to-vowel coarticulation: acoustic structures and their perceptual correlates

Beddor, Patrice Speeter; Harnsberger, James D.; Lindemann, Stephanie

doi:10.1006/jpho.2002.0177

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“…In production, Thai has less anticipatory coarticulation in VN sequences than English does. Beddor, Harnsberger, and Lindemann (2002) show that English and Shona listeners differ in perceptual compensation for V-V coarticulation. Shona differs from English both in the degree and direction of V-V coarticulation.…”

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“…An initial interpretation of such results is that contextually predictable variation is simply ignored in perception. However, more recent results in Beddor et al (2002) indicate that compensation for coarticulation is incomplete, and shows quantitative, language-specific effects. Amplifying this more detailed view are the findings by Bradlow (2002) and Dahan, Magnuson, Tanenhause, & Hogan (2001).…”

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“…It has more coarticulation (possibly due to its smaller vowel system) and anticipatory effects exceed carryover effects, the opposite pattern from English. Beddor et al (2002) found that these subtle differences are reflected in perception. They also provide an extensive review of related findings in other languages.…”

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Phonetic Diversity, Statistical Learning, and Acquisition of Phonology

2003

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In learning to perceive and produce speech, children master complex language-specific patterns. Daunting language-specific variation is found both in the segmental domain and in the domain of prosody and intonation. This article reviews the challenges posed by results in phonetic typology and sociolinguistics for the theory of language acquisition. It argues that categories are initiated bottom-up from statistical modesin use of the phonetic space, and sketches how exemplar theory can be used to model the updating of categories once they are initiated. It also argues that bottom-upinitiation of categories is successful thanks to the perceptionproduction loop operating in the speech community. The behavior of this loop means that the superficial statistical properties of speech available to the infant indirectly reflect the contrastiveness and discriminability of categories in the adult grammar. The article also argues that the developing system is refined using internal feedback from type statistics over the lexicon, once the lexicon is well-developed. The application of type statistics to a system initiated with surface statistics does not cause a fundamental reorganization of the system. Instead, it exploits confluences across levels of representation which characterize human language and make bootstrapping possible.

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Phonetic Diversity, Statistical Learning, and Acquisition of Phonology

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“…A randomized list of 54 nonce words (including 11 fillers 5 ) was presented in written form, embedded in a sentence con-3 The high back unrounded vowel /ɯ/ was excluded because 1) /ɯ/ is the weakest phonologically and phonetically, which means that it is deleted (Kim 2000) or inserted (Kang 2003) at the phonological level most often in Korean and that it is reduced to [ɯ˳] at the phonetic level (Lee 1996), 2) /ɯi/ is considered as the only diphthong in Korean (Lee 1996) so it could be realized differently from other VV sequences and 3) in a pilot experiment, its reduction made measurements impossible. 4 Labial stops were selected for the stimuli following Beddor et al (2002). The initial consonant was tense (p'), which have the shortest VOT period (Lee 1996) and the medial consonant was lax (p) because tense and aspirated consonants shorten the preceding vowel (Choi and Jun 1998).…”

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Position and Height Asymmetries in Hiatus Resolution: A case study of Korean VV sequences

Kang¹

2010

BLS

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In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt:Typological patterns in synchronic data, for example, the question of why pattern A is more frequent than B across languages, have been one of the most important issues in linguistics, in particular in phonology. Ohala (1993) seeks the answer in human articulatory and/or auditory mechanisms. If a phonetic ‘perturbation’ is not corrected properly in perception, a hypo-correction could occur and it could result in a sound change. In this model, typological patterns are assumed to reflect the very variation in ordinary speech. Two crosslinguistic asymmetries in hiatus reso-lution are the main concerns in this paper. Casali (1996) and Rosenthall (1997) present positional and height asymmetries. They take another approach to the ty-pological patterns in that they suggest universal constraints and rankings to ac-count for the asymmetries in the framework of Optimality Theory (Prince and Smolensky 1993). Crosslinguistically, hiatus resolution such as vowel deletion or gliding is more likely to occur in V1 and high vowels than in V2 and non-high vowels. If these patterns result from human articulatory and auditory mechanisms as Ohala (1993) argues, it would be expected that the production of vowel se-quences will show a pattern of phonetic variation, which is similar to the phono-logical processes. As the first step, a set of acoustic data on Korean hiatus is pre-sented in this paper. The results will show that V1 in hiatus is consistently shorter than V2, which corresponds to the positional asymmetry in Casali (1996). As for the height asymmetry, it will be reported that high vowels are more reduced in fast speech, compared to their durations in slow speech.

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“…Beddor et al [4] conducted three experiments to test the hypothesis that V-to-V coarticulatory organization differs in Shona and English. An acoustic study of Shona and English Manuscript received September 9, 2013; revised November 9, 2013 trisyllables shows that the two languages differ in the coarticulatory effect of stressed and unstressed vowels on each other, and the relation between the production and perception data suggests that listeners are attuned to native-language coarticulatory patterns.…”

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The Effect of Carry-over Coarticulation of Bi-Syllabic Words in Chinese

Wang¹,

Zi²

2014

IJIET

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Abstract-In this study, trans-consonantal vowel-to-vowel coarticulation in Chinese is investigated. The target words are in the form of 'bV 1. ba', and the subjects are eight native speakers of standard Chinese. Vowel formants are examined at the onset, middle and offset points of the target vowel. Results show that trans-segmental coarticulation exists in Chinese, especially at the onset point, as well as for the second formant of the target vowel. Coarticulation is more likely to occur on F 2 , and in Chinese, coarticulatory effect does not extend to the offset point of the vowel.

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Language-specific patterns of vowel-to-vowel coarticulation: acoustic structures and their perceptual correlates

Cited by 156 publications

References 37 publications

Phonetic Diversity, Statistical Learning, and Acquisition of Phonology

Phonetic Diversity, Statistical Learning, and Acquisition of Phonology

Position and Height Asymmetries in Hiatus Resolution: A case study of Korean VV sequences

The Effect of Carry-over Coarticulation of Bi-Syllabic Words in Chinese

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