Place assimilation is not the result of gestural overlap: evidence from Korean and English

Jun, Jongho

doi:10.1017/s0952675700002682

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“…Articulatory and acoustic evidence suggests that assimilation may pose an even more complicatedfeature-parsing problem, given the information encoded in the physical realizationof assimilated segments. Although there is some debate over whether natural assimilation ever creates complete or categorical change in acoustic feature cues (Gow, 2003;Nolan, Holst, & Kuhnert, 1999), all existing articulatory and acoustic evidence shows that this process often leads to gradient modification of place of articulation (Barry, 1985;Gow, 2001Gow, , 2002Gow, , 2003Holst & Nolan, 1995;Jun, 1996;Kerswill, 1985;Nolan et al, 1996). Articulatory descriptions of place assimilation focus on two factors.…”

Section: English Place Assimilationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Feature parsing: Feature cue mapping in spoken word recognition

Gow

2003

Perception & Psychophysics

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Section: English Place Assimilationmentioning

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“…Thus, the two gestures appear to be fused into one acoustic landmark, consistent with the production of just one segment. Jun (1996) has argued that overlap alone is insufficient to create perceived assimilation. Jun found that assimilation also requires reduction of the assimilated segment.…”

Section: English Place Assimilationmentioning

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Feature parsing: Feature cue mapping in spoken word recognition

Gow

2003

Perception & Psychophysics

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“…Instances of perceived assimilation can be described similarly with reference to gestures being 'hidden' as a result of temporal reduction. There is also experimental evidence that in these environments the relevant articulatory gestures are subject to reduction in magnitude (Jun, 1996;Jaeger and Hoole, 2007), which may make them more susceptible to being 'hidden' by another gesture. Instances of lenition of the whole juncture (e.g.…”

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Between-word processes in children with speech difficulties: insights from a usage-based approach to phonology

Newton

2012

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

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There are some children with speech and/or language difficulties who are significantly more difficult to understand in connected speech than in single words. The study reported here explores the between-word behaviours of three such children, aged 11;8, 12;2 and 12;10. It focuses on whether these patterns could be accounted for by lenition, as suggested by a usage-based approach to phonology. The children carried out a repetition task, with sentences containing environments that can trigger assimilation and elision. Speech elicited was examined using a combination of perceptual and electropalatographic analysis. All of the children produced instances of word boundary behaviours reported in adult speech, as well as some which are considered to be atypical.It is argued that all of these phenomena can be viewed as lenition, and that a usage-based approach to phonology has potential for providing a valuable framework for the description of between-word processes in disordered speech.

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“…If there is a labial in C1, only a velar in C2 can be a trigger. Recently, articulatory studies on place assimilating languages have also improved our understanding in research on variability in the articulation of consonants from various languages such as American English, British English, German, Georgian, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Swedish (Browman & Goldstein, 1990Chitoran, Goldstein, & Byrd, 1992;Jun, 1995Jun, , 1996Jun, , 2004Honorof, 1999;Kühnert, Hoole, & Mooshammer, 2006;Kochetov & Pouplier, 2008;Son, Kochetov, & Pouplier, 2007;Kochetov, Pouplier, & Son, 2007;Son, 2008aSon, , 2008bSon, , 2011aSon, , 2011b. In particular, results from articulatory studies have shown that place assimilation occurred to some extent either as gestural overlap between the target and the trigger, spatiotemporal reduction of the target stop, or both (Jun, 1995(Jun, , 1996(Jun, , 2004Nolan, 1992;Kühnert & Hoole, 2004;Son et al, 2007;Kochetov & Pouplier, 2008;Son, 2008b among others).…”

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Articulatory Attributes in Korean Nonassimilating Contexts

Son¹

2013

Phonetics and Speech Sciences

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This study examined several kinematic properties of the primary articulator (the tongue dorsum) and the supplementary articulator (the jaw) in the articulation of the voiceless velar stop (/k/) within nonassimilating contexts. We examined in particular the spatiotemporal properties (constriction duration and constriction maxima) from the constriction onset to the constriction offset by analyzing a velar (/k/) followed by the coronal fricative (/s/), the coronal stop (/t/), and the labial (/p/) in across-word boundary conditions (/k#s/, /k#t/, and /k#p/). Along with these measurements, we investigated intergestural temporal coordination between C1 and C2 and the jaw articulator in relation to its coordination with the articulation of consonant sequences. The articulatory movement data was collected by means of electromagnetic midsagittal articulometry (EMMA). Four native speakers of Seoul Korean participated in the laboratory experiment. The results showed several characteristics. First, a velar (/k/) in C1 was not categorically reduced. Constriction duration and constriction degree of the velar (/k/) were similar within nonassimilating contexts (/k#s/=/k#t/=/k#p/). This might mean that spatiotemporal attributes during constriction duration were stable and consistent across different contexts, which might be subsequently associated with the nontarget status of the velar in place assimilation. Second, the gestural overlap could be represented as the order of /k#s/ (less) < /k#p/ (intermediate) < /k#t/ (more) as we measured the onset-to-onset lag (a longer lag indicated shorter gestural overlap.). This indicates a gestural overlap within nonassimilating contexts may not be constrained by any of the several constraints including the perceptual recoverability constraint (e.g., more overlap in Front-to-Back sequences compared to the reverse order (Back-to-Front) since perceptual cues in C1 can be recovered anytime during C2 articulation), the low-level speech motor constraint (e.g., more overlap in lingual-nonlingual sequences as compared to the lingual-lingual sequences), or phonological contexts effects (e.g., similarity in gestural overlap within nonassimilating contexts). As one possible account for more overlap in /k#t/ sequences as compared to /k#p/, we suspect speakers' knowledge may be receptive to extreme encroachment on C1 by the gestural overlap of the coronal in C2 since it does not obscure the perceptual cue of C1 as much as the labial in C2. Third, actual jaw position during C2 was higher in coronals (/s/, /t/) than in the labial (/p/). However, within the coronals, there was no manner-dependent jaw height difference in C2 (/s/=/t/). Vertical jaw position of C1 and C2 was seen as inter-dependent as higher jaw position in C1 was closely associated with C2. Lastly, a greater gap in jaw height was associated with longer intergestural timing (e.g., less overlap), but was confined to the cluster type (/kp/) with the lingual-nonlingual sequence. This study showed that Korean jaw articulation was indepe...

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Place assimilation is not the result of gestural overlap: evidence from Korean and English

Cited by 39 publications

References 11 publications

Feature parsing: Feature cue mapping in spoken word recognition

Feature parsing: Feature cue mapping in spoken word recognition

Between-word processes in children with speech difficulties: insights from a usage-based approach to phonology

Articulatory Attributes in Korean Nonassimilating Contexts

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