The glottal stop between segmental and suprasegmental processing: The case of Maltese

Mitterer, Holger; Kim, Sahyang; Cho, Taehong

doi:10.1016/j.jml.2019.104034

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“…Kim et al (2018) also showed that tonal cues may play a central role in listeners' perception of prosodic structure in this domain. An emergent view that has come about based on these findings is that listeners process segmental and prosodic structures in parallel, as described by Mitterer et al (2019): "listeners compute the prosodic structure (prosodic processing), possibly in parallel with segmental processing" (see also Cho et al, 2007;Kim et al, 2018, Nakai & Turk, 2011. The role of phrasal prosodic structure in this view is to guide interpretation of phonetic detail (Kim & Cho, 2013;Mitterer et al, 2019), and to modulate other domains of speech processing such as phonological inferencing (as in Kim et al, 2018) and word segmentation and recognition (e.g., Cho et al, 2007;Christophe et al, 2004;Salverda et al, 2003).…”

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“…One promising way to extend this work which has recently been explored in the literature is testing perception of non-durational contrasts (Mitterer et al, 2019) or manipulating contextual cues that are not in the temporal domain (Kim et al, 2018). Mitterer et al (2019) tested domaininitial effects on vowel realization in Maltese. Glottalization in Maltese is phonemic such that there exist minimal pairs such as /ʔɑ:m/ "he woke up" and /ɑ:m/ "he swam."…”

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“…These two previous studies therefore suggest that, independent of normalization for durational changes, listeners reference prosodic structure in speech processing. While Kim et al (2018) focused on more abstract phonological inferencing effects, Mitterer et al (2019) showed that these effects can extend to listeners' perception of phonetic detail in speech. Kim et al (2018) also showed that tonal cues may play a central role in listeners' perception of prosodic structure in this domain.…”

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“…Generally speaking, this refers to the temporal expansion of linguistic units preceding a prosodic boundary (Cho, 2015(Cho, , 2016. Though domain-initial prosodic effects in speech perception have received recent attention in the literature (Kim & Cho, 2013;Mitterer et al, 2016Mitterer et al, , 2019, perception of segmental contrasts in phrase-final position remains relatively less studied.…”

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Intonational Structure Influences Perception of Contrastive Vowel Length: The Case of Phrase-Final Lengthening in Tokyo Japanese

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Recent research has proposed that listeners use prosodic information to guide their processing of phonemic contrasts. Given that prosodic organization of the speech signal systematically modulates durational patterns (e.g., accentual lengthening and phrase-final (PF) lengthening), listeners’ perception of durational contrasts has been argued to be influenced by prosodic factors. For example, given that sounds are generally lengthened preceding a prosodic boundary, listeners may adjust their perception of durational cues accordingly, effectively compensating for prosodically-driven temporal patterns. In the present study we present two experiments designed to test the importance of pitch-based cues to prosodic structure for listeners’ perception of contrastive vowel length (CVL) in Tokyo Japanese along these lines. We tested if, when a target sound is cued as being PF, listeners compensatorily adjust categorization of vowel duration, in accordance with PF lengthening. Both experiments were a two-alternative forced choice task in which listeners categorized a vowel duration continuum as a phonemically short or long vowel. We manipulated only pitch surrounding the target sound in a carrier phrase to cue it as intonational phrase final, or accentual phrase medial. In Experiment 1 we tested perception of an accented target word, and in Experiment 2 we tested perception of an unaccented target word. In both experiments, we found that contextual changes in pitch influenced listeners’ perception of CVL, in accordance with their function as signaling intonational structure. Results therefore suggest that listeners use tonal information to compute prosodic structure and bring this to bear on their perception of durational contrasts in speech.

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Section: Previous Studiesmentioning

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Section: Previous Studiesmentioning

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Intonational Structure Influences Perception of Contrastive Vowel Length: The Case of Phrase-Final Lengthening in Tokyo Japanese

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2020

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“…For example, Maltese is analyzed as having both phonetic glottal stops and optional epenthetic glottal stops that can occur before vowel‐initial words (Galea, 2016). In a task designed to elicit glottal stops either intervocalically or after an /m/, Mitterer, Kim, and Cho (2019) found that a little over 60% of underlying glottal stops were produced with full closure, whereas a little under 60% of epenthetic glottal stops had full closure. Harris (2001) describes syllable‐final phonemic glottal stops in Thai as having a “moderate” closure, with fiberoptic laryngoscope imaging indicating constriction of the whole laryngeal vestibule.…”

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The versatility of creaky phonation: Segmental, prosodic, and sociolinguistic uses in the world's languages

Davidson

2020

WIRES Cognitive Science

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Creaky phonation (also known as creaky voice, vocal fry, laryngealization, or glottalization) is a voice quality that refers to shortened and thickened vocal folds that vibrate at a low and quasi‐regular fundamental frequency with a long period of damping. Cross‐linguistically, creaky phonation can span either short or long domains. When implemented on individual vowels or consonants (as in Zapotec or Montana Salish), it can signal phonemic contrast with other voice qualities, or it can be an additional acoustic cue to enhance other contrasts, such as tone (as in Mandarin or Cantonese). Another segmental use of creaky phonation in many languages is as a variant of glottal stop. Creaky phonation can also be implemented as a prosodic element that signals the end of a phrase (as in English or Mandarin), or indicates relinquishing a conversational turn (as in Finnish). It can also express meaning in a social interaction, such as irritation (in Vietnamese). Lastly, creaky phonation can be deployed as a sociolinguistic marker to establish identities, convey affect, or distinguish one speech group from another within the same language. In some social circumstances, such as the perception that young women use creaky phonation at greater rates than men do, it can be evaluated negatively by listeners. As creaky phonation can be combined with linguistic elements at various levels and is easily perceptible, it has taken on a remarkable number of roles in our linguistic repertoires. This article is categorized under: Linguistics > Language in Mind and Brain

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Datasets on the production and perception of underlying and epenthetic glottal stops in Maltese

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The glottal stop between segmental and suprasegmental processing: The case of Maltese

Cited by 21 publications

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Intonational Structure Influences Perception of Contrastive Vowel Length: The Case of Phrase-Final Lengthening in Tokyo Japanese

Intonational Structure Influences Perception of Contrastive Vowel Length: The Case of Phrase-Final Lengthening in Tokyo Japanese

The versatility of creaky phonation: Segmental, prosodic, and sociolinguistic uses in the world's languages

Datasets on the production and perception of underlying and epenthetic glottal stops in Maltese

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