Perceptual effects in final cluster reduction patterns

Shinohara, Shigeko

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2005.06.008

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“…Crucially, the input to the grammar can be either an underlying form (in the case of a native alternation) or a foreign surface form (in the case of a loanword adaptation). This model, which has been adopted by Adler (2006) and Shinohara (2006), thus accounts for perceptual minimality effects in both native alternations and loanword adaptations. The existence of conflicts between loanword adaptations and native alternations, though, is problematic, since it shows that the ranking of the constraint demanding perceptual similarity can depend on the type of input, loanword or native word.…”

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On the perceptual origin of loanword adaptations: experimental evidence from Japanese

2008

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Japanese shows an asymmetry in the treatment of word-final [n] in loanwords from English and French: while it is adapted as a moraic nasal consonant in loanwords from English, it is adapted with a following epenthetic vowel in loanwords from French. We provide experimental evidence that this asymmetry is due to phonetic differences in the realisation of word-final [n] in English and French, and, consequently, to the way in which English and French word-final [n] are perceived by native speakers of Japanese. Specifically, French but not English word-final [n] has a strong vocalic release that Japanese listeners perceive as their native vowel [ɯ]. We propose a psycholinguistic model in which most loanword adaptations originate in perceptual assimilation, a process which takes place during perception and which maps non-native sounds and sound structures onto the phonetically closest native ones. We compare our model to alternatives couched within phonological theory.

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On the perceptual origin of loanword adaptations: experimental evidence from Japanese

2008

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“…The first question concerns the relative roles of low ͑phonetic/acoustic͒ and higher ͑pho-nological͒ levels of speech analysis. This question is the subject of an ongoing debate in loanword phonology between proponents of exclusively phonological motivations for loanword adaptations ͑Paradis and LaCharité, 1997, 2001͒ and proponents of the "phonetic approximation" view ͑see, among others, Shinohara, 2006;Silverman, 1992;Vendelin and Peperkamp, 2004;Yip, 1993͒. In the broader field of speech perception, the phonological versus phonetic tension is directly related to the issue of language-specificity versus universality, respectively. Are language-specific phonological rules and constraints so firmly imprinted in listeners' knowledge of the native system that they supersede physical evidence?…”

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Dental-to-velar perceptual assimilation: A cross-linguistic study of the perception of dental stop+/l/ clusters

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2007

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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French listeners perceive illegal /tl/ and /dl/ clusters as legal /kl/ and /gl/, suggesting that /dl, tl/ undergo "phonotactic perceptual assimilation" to the phonetically most similar permissible clusters [Hallé et al., J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. (1998)]. However, without a comparison to native speakers of a language allowing initial /tl, dl/, other explanations remain open (e.g., universal phonetic biases). Experiment 1 compared native French and Hebrew listeners on perception of Hebrew /tl/-/kl/ and /dl/-/gl/. On a language-specific phonotactics account, these contrasts should be difficult for listeners whose language disallows initial /tl, dl/ while allowing /kl, gl/ (French), but not for listeners whose language permits all four clusters (Hebrew). Indeed, French but not Hebrew listeners showed difficulty discriminating /tl/-/kl/, and tended to categorize the initial consonant of /tl/ as /k/; analogous effects for /dl/-/gl/ were weaker. Experiment 2 tested speakers of American English, which also disallows initial /tl, dl/ but realizes stop-voicing differently than French or Hebrew, to examine possible contributions of language-specific phonetic settings. Their performance was similar to that of French listeners, though they had significantly greater difficulty with /dl-/gl/. The results support the proposal of language-specific phonotactic perceptual assimilation, with modest contributions from language-specific phonetic settings.

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“…Recent research on loanword adaptations can be divided into three positions: perceptual factors are the primary, and perhaps the only, influence determining the form of loanwords in a borrowing language (Peperkamp & Dupoux 2003, Peperkamp 2005); a combination of perceptual and phonological factors affect how words are borrowed (Silverman 1992, Yip 1993, Rose 1999, Kim & Curtis 2000, Kang 2003, Broselow 2004, Kenstowicz & Suchato 2006, Rose & Demuth 2006, Shinohara 2006, Smith 2006, Yip 2006); and perception plays only a negligible role (Paradis & LaCharité 1997, Jacobs & Gussenhoven 2000, LaCharité & Paradis 2005, Uffmann 2006). One example of the combined position is presented in Kang (2003), who discusses vowel insertion after word-final stops by Korean borrowers of English as a case that requires both perceptual and phonological explanations.…”

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The relationship between the perception of non-native phonotactics and loanword adaptation

Davidson

2007

Phonology

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This study examines how phonetic details produced by non-bilingual borrowers (‘disseminators’) are categorised when new words are transmitted to the monolinguals of the borrowing language community (‘recipients’). The stimuli are based on research showing that the schwa inserted by English speakers into non-native clusters (e.g. /zgɑmo/→[zəgɑmo]) differs acoustically from lexical schwa (e.g. [zəgɑmo]). In Experiment 1, listeners transcribed Cluster (CC), Lexical (CəC) and Transitional (CəC) stimuli produced by an English speaker. Transcriptions of CəC stimuli were split between CC and CVC, and participants wrote CəC with a vowel less often than they did CəC. Experiment 2 demonstrated that listeners had difficulty discriminating between CəC and both CC and CəC. These findings suggest that CəC is acoustically intermediate between clusters and schwas; thus recipients may assign CəC token to either of the phonotactic categories CC or CəC. The ramifications of these findings for loanwords and the acquisition of phonological contrast are discussed.

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Perceptual effects in final cluster reduction patterns

Cited by 19 publications

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On the perceptual origin of loanword adaptations: experimental evidence from Japanese

On the perceptual origin of loanword adaptations: experimental evidence from Japanese

Dental-to-velar perceptual assimilation: A cross-linguistic study of the perception of dental stop+/l/ clusters

The relationship between the perception of non-native phonotactics and loanword adaptation

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