Contrast reduction among coronals is conditioned by the following vowel

Qandeel Hussain; Mark Harvey; Michael Proctor; Katherine Demuth

Contrast reduction among coronals is conditioned by the following vowel

Qandeel Hussain, Mark Harvey, Michael Proctor, Katherine Demuth

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Abstract

There is evidence that coronal contrasts involving retroflexes are less clearly distinguished after a high front vowel /i/ [2, 9]. However, no detailed acoustic studies have been conducted to investigate whether following front vowels affect the contrastiveness of dentals, retroflexes and palatals. We examined the acoustic characteristics of three Punjabi coronal onsets /t̪ ʈ tʃ/ produced before five vowels /i e a u o/ by 12 Punjabi speakers. The results showed that only VOT and spectral variance of the release burst reliably distinguished Punjabi coronal stops in all vocalic contexts. Centre of gravity, skewness and kurtosis of release bursts did not differentiate the coronals in the /i/ context, but did distinguish them before /e a u o/. These findings shed more light on the phonetic basis of coronal contrasts in Indo-Aryan languages, and the ways that they interact with different following vowels.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
Editors	The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	International Phonetic Association
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	9780852619414
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	International congress of phonetic sciences (18th : 2015) - Glasgow, UK Duration: 10 Aug 2015 → 14 Aug 2015

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Conference	International congress of phonetic sciences (18th : 2015)
City	Glasgow, UK
Period	10/08/15 → 14/08/15

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Punjabi
Coronal
Stop consonant
Retroflex
VOT

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Hussain, Q, Harvey, M, Proctor, M & Demuth, K 2015, Contrast reduction among coronals is conditioned by the following vowel. in The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015 (ed.), Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. International Phonetic Association, London, International congress of phonetic sciences (18th : 2015), Glasgow, UK, 10/08/15. <http://www.icphs2015.info/pdfs/proceedings.html>

Contrast reduction among coronals is conditioned by the following vowel. / Hussain, Qandeel; Harvey, Mark; Proctor, Michael et al.
Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. ed. / The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015. London: International Phonetic Association, 2015.

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