Predicting distributional restrictions on prenasalized stops

Stanton, Juliet

doi:10.1007/s11049-015-9318-4

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“…These findings for Tumbuka differ fromStanton's (2016) findings in her survey of phonetic studies, where the stop portion of ND was usually very short compared to the stop portion of NT (recallFigure 3). One would expect Tumbuka NTh to behave similar to what Stanton reports for NT sequences.…”

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The phonetics of NCh in Tumbuka and its implications for diachronic change

Downing¹,

Hamann²

2018

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The phonetic motivation for the synchronic and diachronic development of post-nasal voicing (*NT > ND) is well understood. Less well understood is the phonetic motivation for other common synchronic and diachronic developments from *NT, widely attested in Bantu languages, such as aspiration of the voiceless plosive and subsequent loss of either the nasal or the plosive portion of the sequence: *NT > NTh > Th, Nh. In this paper we first review the existing (scarce) phonetic literature on these developments. Then we present the results of a phonetic study of NC sequences in Tumbuka, a Bantu language where NT > NTh, as a way of exploring how the acoustic and perceptual properties of NTh sequences could motivate the development, found in other Bantu languages, of Th or Nɦ from NTh. We conclude by proposing that a perceptual cue approach, rather than a gestural or other articulatory approach, provides the most persuasive phonetic account, not only of the motivation for post-nasal aspiration of voiceless stops, but also for the instability of nasals and of voiceless stops in the NTh context which leads to other sound changes.

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The phonetics of NCh in Tumbuka and its implications for diachronic change

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Hamann²

2018

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“…Herbert (1976) suggested that prenasalized segments should have the phonetic duration of a single segment, else they should be considered clusters of two segments. Studies of several languages have presented this kind of argument; see Stanton (2015) for a summary of this literature, and also Avram (2010), Rivera-Castillo (2013). For example, Maddieson (1989) shows that Fijian prenasalized consonant durations match those of voiceless stops and /l/, and durations of vowels before the various consonants are likewise similar.…”

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“…It is uncontroversial that in prenasalized sounds, a nasal interval comes before an oral interval: the velum is first lowered, then raised (e.g. Burton, Blumstein & Stevens (1992), Beddor & Onsuwan (2003), Riehl (2008); see Stanton (2015) for additional references). Cohn & Riehl (2012) noted that in many Austronesian languages, vowels after prenasalized consonants are oral, while after nasals, vowels are nasalized; that is, the right edge of a prenasalized consonant is fully oral.…”

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“…Keenan & Chung (2017) have recently made the same argument in favor of prenasalized segments in Malagasy. As Stanton (2015) notes, given a choice of complicating the inventory or the phonotactics of a language, analysts will mostly choose to add to the inventory. Similarly, it is often pointed out that prenasalized consonants can occur initially, where they are unlikely clusters given their decreasing sonority (though cf.…”

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Proposal for superscript diacritics for prenasalization, preglottalization and preaspiration

Keating¹,

Wymark²,

Sharif³

2019

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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The IPA currently does not specify how to represent prenasalization, preglottalization or preaspiration. We first review some current transcription practices, and phonetic and phonological literature bearing on the unitary status of prenasalized, preglottalized and preaspirated segments. We then propose that the IPA adopt superscript diacritics placed before a base symbol for these three phenomena. We also suggest how the current IPA Diacritics chart can be modified to allow these diacritics to be fit within the chart.

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“…Several strategies have been used to motivate unnatural sound changes. The case of post-nasal devoicing (PND), for instance, has been analyzed variously as a phonetically motivated process (Solé 2012), a result of Ohala’s (1981) hypercorrection, and a case of perceptual enhancement (Stanton 2016b). Some proposals have also argued that PND is the result of a number of sound changes (Dickens 1984, Hyman 2001).…”

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Post-nasal devoicing and the blurring process

Beguš

2018

J. Ling.

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This paper addresses one of the most contested issues in phonology: unnatural alternations. First, non-natural phonological processes are subdivided into unmotivated and unnatural. The central topic of the paper is an unnatural process: post-nasal devoicing (PND). I collect thirteen cases of PND and argue that in all reported cases, PND does not derive from a single unnatural sound change (as claimed in some individual accounts of the data), but rather from a combination of three sound changes, each of which is phonetically motivated. I present new evidence showing that the three stages are directly historically attested in the pre-history of Yaghnobi. Based on several discussed cases, I propose a new diachronic model for explaining unnatural phenomena called the Blurring Process and point to its advantages over competing approaches (hypercorrection, perceptual enhancement, and phonetic motivation). The Blurring Process establishes general diachronic conditions for unnatural synchronic processes and can be employed to explain unnatural processes beyond PND. Additionally, I provide a proof establishing the minimal sound changes required for an unmotivated/unnatural alternation to arise. The Blurring Process and Minimal Sound Change Requirement have implications for models of typology within the Channel Bias approach. This paper thus presents a first step toward the ultimate goal of quantifying the influences of Channel Bias on phonological typology.

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Predicting distributional restrictions on prenasalized stops

Cited by 6 publications

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The phonetics of NCh in Tumbuka and its implications for diachronic change

The phonetics of NCh in Tumbuka and its implications for diachronic change

Proposal for superscript diacritics for prenasalization, preglottalization and preaspiration

Post-nasal devoicing and the blurring process

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