/r/-sandhi in early 20th century New Zealand English

Hay, Jennifer; Maclagan, Margaret

doi:10.1515/ling-2012-0023

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“…Pairwise comparisons showed, in support of Hay & Maclagan (2012), that the low frequency users had significantly higher F3 than the middle (p < .0001) and high frequency users (p < .0001). The middle and high frequency users also differed significantly from each other on F3 (p < .01).…”

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Hiatus resolution and linking ‘r’ in Australian English

Cox¹,

Palethorpe²,

Buckley³

et al. 2014

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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Hiatus occurs when the juxtaposition of syllables results in two separate vowels occurring alongside one another. Such vowel adjacency, both within words and across word boundaries, is phonologically undesirable in many languages but can be resolved using a range of strategies including consonant insertion. This paper examines linguistic and extralinguistic factors that best predict the likelihood of inserted linking ‘r’ across word boundaries in Australian English. Corpus data containing a set of 32 phrases produced in a sentence-reading task by 103 speakers were auditorily and acoustically analysed. Results reveal that linguistic variables of accentual context and local speaking rate take precedence over speaker-specific variables of age, gender and sociolect in the management of hiatus. We interpret this to be a reflection of the phonetic manifestation of boundary phenomena. The frequency of the phrase containing the linking ‘r’, the frequency of an individual's use of linking ‘r’, and the accentual status of the flanking vowels all affect the /ɹ/ strength (determined by F3), suggesting that a hybrid approach is warranted in modelling liaison. Age effects are present for certain prosodic contexts indicating change in progress for Australian English.

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“…In contrast, Hay & Maclagan (2012) and Hay & Sudbury (2005) show that female speakers of NZE used linking 'r' significantly less frequently than males.…”

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Hiatus resolution and linking ‘r’ in Australian English

Cox¹,

Palethorpe²,

Buckley³

et al. 2014

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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“…Words that often occur before vowels, then, will have had a greater chance of being experienced more often with /ɹ/ than words that occur more often before consonants. Hay and Maclagan () show the role that this increased experience plays: Words that occur more often before vowels are more likely to be produced with an /ɹ/ in the relevant environment. A further case of a word's distribution of realizations impacting individual tokens is reported by Sóskuthy, Foulkes, Haddican, Hay, and Hughes () and Sóskuthy, Foulkes, Haddican, and Hughes (this volume).…”

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Sociophonetics: The Role of Words, the Role of Context, and the Role of Words in Context

Hay

2018

Topics in Cognitive Science

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This paper synthesizes a wide range of literature from sociolinguistics and cognitive psychology, to argue for a central role for the "word" as a vehicle of language variation and change. Three crucially interlinked strands of research are reviewed-the role of context in associative learning, the word-level storage of phonetic and contextual detail, and the phonetic consequences of skewed distributions of words across different contexts. I argue that the human capacity for associative learning, combined with attention to fine-phonetic detail at the level of the word, plays a significant role in predicting a range of subtle but systematically robust observed socioindexical patterns in speech production and perception.

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“…At the lexical level, a number of studies have demonstrated word-specific pronunciation generalizations (see e.g. Pierrehumbert 2002;Hay and Maclagan 2012) For example, the length of the penultimate vowel in the word memory shows a wide range of variation [mɛməri ~ mɛmri] that is not found in the minimally distinct word mammary [maeməri ~ *maemri]. Word-specific generalizations such as this cannot be easily accommodated within a strict hierarchy of nested abstractions, where only the smallest unit makes contact with phonetic detail.…”

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Lexical contrast maintenance and the organization of sublexical contrast systems

Wedel

2012

Lang. cogn.

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Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1866980800000727How to cite this article: Andrew Wedel (2012). Lexical contrast maintenance and the organization of sublexical contrast systems .Abstract: Variationist/evolutionary models of phonology assume a causal chain that links biases at the utterance level to the development and consolidation of abstract phonological patterns over time. Some of the properties of linguistic cognition that have been proposed to underlie this chain are (i) storage of experienced detail at multiple levels of description, (ii) feedback between perception and production, (iii) a similarity bias in the production and perception of variation, and (iv) enhancement of cues to potentially ambiguous lexical items in usage. I review evidence for these properties and argue that they interact to provide a pathway for individual usage events to influence the evolution of contrastive sublexcal category systems, i.e phoneme inventories. Specifically, the proposed Network-Feedback model predicts that the organization of sublexical category systems is shaped by a conflict between a general drive toward greater similarity among sublexical categories on the one hand, and a bias toward maintaining contrast between tokens of competing lexical categories on the other. The model provides testable hypotheses about the conditions favoring phoneme merger, chain-shifts, and phonemic splits, and more generally about the influence of lexical contrast on the packing of sublexical categories along gestural/perceptual dimensions. Finally, this pathway of change is consistent with proposals that sublexical categories such as features and segments are not primitives of language, but emerge through more general properties of performance, perception, categorization and learning.

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/r/-sandhi in early 20th century New Zealand English

Cited by 21 publications

References 18 publications

Hiatus resolution and linking ‘r’ in Australian English

Hiatus resolution and linking ‘r’ in Australian English

Sociophonetics: The Role of Words, the Role of Context, and the Role of Words in Context

Lexical contrast maintenance and the organization of sublexical contrast systems

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