Contrastive and Non-contrastive Pre-stopping in Kaytetye

Mark Harvey, Susan Lin, Myfany Turpin, Ben Davies, Katherine Demuth

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

    8 Citations (Scopus)

    Abstract

    Kaytetye is one of the few Australian languages for which pre-stopping is contrastive for nasals. This paper provides the first quantitative data on the phonetic realization of contrastive pre-stopping for any Australian language. It also provides data on the hitherto unreported non-contrastive pre-stopping of laterals in Kaytetye. The findings demonstrate that contrastive nasal pre-stopping and non-contrastive lateral pre-stopping differ on three parameters: (a) the conditioning on the distribution of plain vs. pre-stopped realizations; (b) the comparative overall durations of pre-stopped realizations compared to plain realizations; and (c) the duration of pre-stopping.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)232-250
    Number of pages19
    JournalAustralian Journal of Linguistics
    Volume35
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 3 Jul 2015

    Fingerprint

    Dive into the research topics of 'Contrastive and Non-contrastive Pre-stopping in Kaytetye'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

    Cite this