Voice and aspiration: Evidence from Russian, Hungarian, German, Swedish, and Turkish

Petrova, Olga; Plapp, Rosemary; Ringen, Catherine; Szentgyörgyi, Szilárd

doi:10.1515/tlr.2006.001

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“…In other words, even when prevoicing is present, these are still 'aspiration' systems -prevoicing is just an alternative realization of the lenis stops. Likewise Swedish (Helgason & Ringen, 2008) and Turkish (Petrova, Plapp, Ringen & Szentgyorgyi, 2006) have been described as languages with aspiration and prevoicing. Phonological descriptions of such systems are simplified if it is assumed that they contain no active feature [voice] -the difference between Swedish-type and English-type systems need not be phonologically specified.…”

Section: General Discussion -Voicing Without [Voice]mentioning

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Asymmetrical cross-language phonetic interaction

Schwartz

2020

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Two acoustic studies were carried out with L1 Polish learners of English. One study examined L1 phonetic drift, comparing learners of L2 English who were undergoing intensive L2 phonetic training with quasi-monolingual Polish speakers. The other study looked at L2 acquisition, comparing learners at two different levels of proficiency. Unlike most previous studies of Polish-English bilinguals, VOT data of both voiced and voiceless consonants were analyzed. In both experiments, an asymmetry was observed by which voiced stops were more susceptible to cross-language phonetic influence (CLI) than voiceless stops. These results build on evidence of a similar asymmetry observed in a number of other L1–L2 pairings. Predictions of competing phonological models are evaluated with regard to equivalence classification and phonetic CLI. It is shown that both traditional approaches to the phonological representation of voice contrasts fail to predict the observed asymmetry. An alternative theory, which predicts the asymmetry, is discussed.

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Section: General Discussion -Voicing Without [Voice]mentioning

confidence: 99%

Asymmetrical cross-language phonetic interaction

Schwartz

2020

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“…Beckman (1998) proposes that faithfulness constraints can single out positions that are phonetically or psycholinguistically prominent. These include (root‐)initial syllables (Beckman 1997, 1998; Kaun 1995), stressed syllables (Beckman 1998; Majors 1998), morphological roots (McCarthy and Prince 1994, 1995), and final syllables (Krämer 2003; Petrova et al 2006; Sasa 2009; Walker 2011). Backness harmony from a root‐initial syllable is analyzed with the constraint in (8).…”

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Vowel Harmony in Optimality Theory

Walker

2012

Language and Linguist. Compass

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This article reviews the analysis of vowel harmony in Optimality Theory. Vowel harmony is a phenomenon in which the vowels in a word or another domain show systematic agreement for some property, such as rounding, backness, height, or ATR quality. Optimality Theory is a framework of generative linguistics in which grammars consist of a hierarchy of constraints on outputs. The treatment of various aspects of harmony systems are discussed, including what drives harmony, directionality and trigger control, opaque and transparent segments, dominant-recessive patterns, and variation. Data from Turkish, Igbo, Pulaar, Diola Fogny, Finnish, and Hungarian are discussed.

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“…This is an intriguing result, as VOT differences are essential to discriminate between voiced and voiceless stop phonemes in many languages of the world (Lisker & Abramson, 1964). In French or Russian, for example, voiced stops such as [ 6 9 _ T D $ D I F F ] /d/ or /b/ require voicing to start before oral closure release (i.e., negative VOT; Petrova, Plapp, Ringen, & Szentgyörgyi, 2006). In contrast, voicing in voiceless stops like [ 7 0 _ T D $ D I F F ] /t/ or /p/ often start after closure release (i.e., positive VOT).…”

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