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Journal articles on the topic "Final consonant devoicing"
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Flores, Berta, and Xinia Rodríguez. "The influence of language transfer on consonant cluster production." Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica 20, no. 1 (August 30, 2015): 99. http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/rfl.v20i1.20234.
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La simplificación de grupos consonánticos en inicial de palabra, palabra medial y posición final de palabra en Inglés se analiza contrastivamente en una muestra de siete adultos costarricenses.Traslado del español se manifiesta en la elección sistemática de epéntesis simplificar inicial de palabra grupos de consonantes, la sustitución y la delación consonante tratar con grupos de palabras mediales y eliminación, y devoicing modificar racimos final de palabra.
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Treiman, Rebecca, and Margo Bowman. "Spelling in African American children: the case of final consonant devoicing." Reading and Writing 28, no. 7 (March 21, 2015): 1013–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11145-015-9559-y.
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Ciszewski, Tomasz. "Metrical conditioning of word-final devoicing in Polish." Forum Filologiczne Ateneum, no. 1(7)2019 (December 31, 2019): 43–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.36575/2353-2912/1(7)2019.043.
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The present paper investigates a segmental phenomenon traditionally referred to as word-final obstruent devoicing in Polish. It is generally assumed that the context in which it applies is solely related to the absolute word-final position before silence. By inference, full voicing of a wordfinal obstruent is retained only when (i) it is followed by a voiced segment (a vowel or a consonant) in an utterance or when (ii) it is appended with a suffix which begins with a vowel. In this research a different group of factors which trigger the process is explored, namely the position of the obstruent within the metrical foot. If, as argued by Harris (2009), noninitial position within the foot is a typical lenition site (contrary to Iverson and Salmons 2007) and if devoicing is regarded as a special manifestation of lenition (through information loss, similarly to vowel reduction), a purely segmental (contextual) conditioning for voicing retention in obstruents word-finally cannot be maintained.
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Tsuchida Zanfra, Mayara, and Rosane Silveira. "Voicing and devoicing English alveolar fricatives: an investigation of Brazilian learners’ production." Veredas - Revista de Estudos Linguísticos 24, no. 2 (October 7, 2020): 74–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.34019/1982-2243.2020.v24.32510.
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This study examined the occurrence of voicing change in English alveolar fricatives produced by Brazilian-Portuguese (BP) speakers in different phonological contexts. The participants were 23 native speakers of BP and 4 native speakers of American English, and all of them recorded 54 English sentences containing the target sounds. The results showed that the phonological context that triggered higher rates for devoicing with /z/ were a pause and a voiceless consonant, and the phonological context that triggered higher rates of voicing with /s/ were a voiced consonant and a vowel. In addition, the presence of the <e> grapheme in word-final position influenced the production of voicing change.
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Wiltshire, Caroline R. "The “Indian English” of Tibeto-Burman language speakers." English World-Wide 26, no. 3 (October 31, 2005): 275–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/eww.26.3.03wil.
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English as spoken as a second language in India (IE) has developed different sound patterns from other varieties of English. While most descriptions of IE have focused on the English of speakers whose first languages belong to the Indo-Aryan or Dravidian families, in this study, I examine the phonetic and phonological characteristics of the English produced by speakers of three Indian L1s from the Tibeto-Burman language family (Angami, Ao, and Mizo). In addition to describing aspects of Tibeto-Burman Indian English, a previously unreported Indian English variety, I also examine how and why this variety of English differs from General Indian English. The English of Tibeto-Burman L1 speakers seems to form a variety distinct from Indian English, most noticeably in terms of the lack of retroflexion of coronal consonants, the devoicing of word-final obstruents, the simplification of consonant clusters, the presence of post-vocalic [p], and the reduced set of vowel contrasts. Most of these can be traced to transfer from the L1 phonology, with the coda devoicing and cluster reductions reflecting simplification in terms of markedness, following developmental sequences found in second language acquisition.
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Pooley, Timothy. "Word-final consonant devoicing in a variety of working-class French – a case of language contact?" Journal of French Language Studies 4, no. 2 (September 1994): 215–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959269500002234.
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AbstractThe article examines the variable distribution of word-final consonant devoicing (=WFCD) among working-class speakers in the Roubaix district, with respect to phonological conditioning and speaker characteristics. WFCD is shown to affect coronals, labials and velars in that order, and to be favoured by pre-pausal position. Among speakers over forty-five WFCD is primarily associated with female speakers, and to a lesser degree with male speakers under thirty. This sociolinguistically unusual distribution of a strongly vernacular variant may plausibly be attributed to language/dialect contact consequent on the immigration of Flemish-speaking textile workers. Such language contact would have tended to reinforce an already existing characteristic of Picard patois rather than introducing a totally new feature as the brief review of other Picard varie-ties would suggest.
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Hamid Raza, Mohd. "AN OT ACCOUNT OF PHONOTACTIC AND CODA NEUTRALIZATION OF ENGLISH LOANS IN PILIBHIT HINDI-URDU." JL3T ( Journal of Linguistics Literature and Language Teaching) 6, no. 1 (August 16, 2020): 12–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.32505/jl3t.v6i1.1882.
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This paper provided the basic information of the phonological processes as the Coda Neutralization and Phonotactics of English Loans in Pilibhit Hindi-Urdu within the framework of Optimality Theory (OT). The objectives of this paper were to represent the aspects of the coda neutralization in the sense of voiced obstruent segment becomes voiceless obstruent segment in the final syllable structure of the loanwords, and the consonant clusters break within the insertion of an extraneous segment in any location of the English Loans in Pilibhit Hindi-Urdu. In the another framework, this paper revealed the phenomena of devoicing features of coda consonants and the grades of the additional segments in Pilibhit Hindi-Urdu loanwords within the principles of Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky, 1993). The central idea of this paper was to explore the process of conflicts between the candidates at the surface level and reflects the properties of the input candidate by the observation of the constraint rankings. In this study, it was propounded the effective formalities of the hierarchy of the constraint rankings and drew one of the best candidates as an optimal candidate out of the output candidates from English loans in Pilibhit Hindi-Urdu. The groundwork of this paper was related to the significant aspects of the English loans that were adapted within the addition, insertion, or deletion of the segments in Pilibhit Hindi-Urdu. In this paper, it was also determined the facts of the coda devoicing of the speech segments in terms of neutralization at the end of the syllable structure of English loans in Pilibhit Hindi-Urdu.
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Kraska-Szlenk,, Iwona, and Marzena Żygis,. "Phonetic and lexical gradience in Polish prefixed words." Cognitive Linguistics 23, no. 2 (May 25, 2012): 317–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/cog-2012-0010.
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AbstractThe article focuses on the gradient phonetic effects occurring at the prefix-stem boundary in Polish and their phonological interpretation. The environment of a consonant-final prefix followed by a vowel-initial stem exhibits remarkable variation as to the presence of specific phonetic cues, ranging from their being completely absent or very weak to the presence of strong ones, such as the occurrence of a glottal stop combined with partial devoicing of the prefix-final consonant and full glottalization of the stem-initial vowel. A significant correlation is observed between the number of the phonetic cues marking the morphological boundary and the lexical frequency, as well as certain other factors. The gradient character of the prefix-stem juncture in Polish is independently motivated by the speakers' attitudes as revealed in a psycholinguistic test, which demonstrates that the low-level phonetic features contribute to the mental representation of language grammar. The discussion of the data is conducted in the larger context of Polish sandhi, phonotactics and neighbourhood density effects, providing a functional explanation of the analysed problem and of certain prefix-suffix asymmetries. All the evidence in the article points to the importance of language usage criteria in shaping a language grammar and to the necessity of recognizing this fact in linguistic analysis.
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Maguire, Warren, Rhona Alcorn, Benjamin Molineaux, Joanna Kopaczyk, Vasilios Karaiskos, and Bettelou Los. "Charting the rise and demise of a phonotactically motivated change in Scots." Folia Linguistica 40, no. 1 (July 26, 2019): 37–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/flih-2019-0003.
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Abstract Although Old English [f] and [v] are represented unambiguously in Older Scots orthography by <f> and <v> (or <u>) in initial and morpheme-internal position, in morpheme-final position <f> and <v>/<u> appear to be used interchangeably for both of these Old English sounds. As a result, there is often a mismatch between the spellings and the etymologically expected consonant. This paper explores these spellings using a substantial database of Older Scots texts, which have been grapho-phonologically parsed as part of the From Inglis to Scots (FITS) project. Three explanations are explored for this apparent mismatch: (1) it was a spelling-only change; (2) there was a near merger of /f/ and /v/ in Older Scots; (3) final [v] devoiced in (pre-)Older Scots but this has subsequently been reversed. A close analysis of the data suggests that the Old English phonotactic constraint against final voiced fricatives survived into the pre-Literary Scots period, leading to automatic devoicing of any fricative that appeared in word-final position (a version of Hypothesis 3), and this, interacting with final schwa loss, gave rise to the complex patterns of variation we see in the Older Scots data. Thus, the devoicing of [v] in final position was not just a phonetically natural sound change, but also one driven by a pre-existing phonotactic constraint in the language. This paper provides evidence for the active role of phonotactic constraints in the development of sound changes, suggesting that phonotactic constraints are not necessarily at the mercy of the changes which conflict with them, but can be involved in the direction of sound change themselves.
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Franklin, Amber, and Lana McDaniel. "Exploring a Phonological Process Approach to Adult Pronunciation Training." American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 25, no. 2 (May 2016): 172–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/2015_ajslp-14-0172.
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Purpose The production of speech sound classes in adult language learners is affected by (a) interference between the native language and the target language and (b) speaker variables such as time speaking English. In this article, we demonstrate how phonological process analysis, an approach typically used in child speech, can be used to characterize adult target language phonological learning. Method Sentences produced by 2 adult Japanese English language learners were transcribed and coded for phoneme accuracy and analyzed according to the percent occurrence of phonological processes. The results were interpreted relative to a contrastive analysis between Japanese and English phonetic inventories and developmental norms for monolingual English children. Results In this pilot study, common consonant processes included vocalization, final consonant devoicing, and cluster reduction. These are processes commonly observed in the speech of children who are typically developing. Conclusions The process analysis can inform clinical approaches to pronunciation training in adult English language learners. For example, the cycles approach (Hodson & Paden, 1981) may provide more clinical efficacy than an articulatory approach in which phonemes are targeted individually. In addition, a process analysis can enable clinicians to examine the principles of within-class and across-class generalization in adult pronunciation instruction.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Final consonant devoicing"
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Kile, Stacy Nicole. "The Influence Of Dialect On The Perception Of Final Consonant Voicing." Scholar Commons, 2007. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3837.
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Children at risk for reading problems also have difficulty perceiving critical
differences in speech sounds (Breier et al., 2004; Edwards, Fox, & Rogers, 2003; de-
Gelder & Vroomen, 1998). These children rely more heavily on context than the acoustic
qualities of sound to facilitate word reading. Dialect use, such as African American
English (AAE) may influence literacy development in similar ways. Dialect use has been
shown to affect speech sound processing and can even result in spelling errors (Kohler, et
al., in press). The purpose of this study is to determine if children who speak AAE
process cues indicative of final consonant voicing differently than children who speak a
more mainstream dialect of English.
Twenty-six typically developing children in grades K-2 who spoke either AAE or
a more mainstream American English dialect participated. The speech stimuli consisted
of nonsense productions of vowel + plosive consonant. These stimuli were systematically
altered by changing the vowel and stop-gap closure duration simultaneously, which
resulted in the final consonant changing from a voiced consonant, like “ib”, to a voiceless
consonant, like “ip”. Two tasks were developed: a continuum task where the child had to
indicate when the stimuli changed in voicing and a same-different task which involved
determining if two stimuli were identical in voicing or not.
No significant differences between groups were found for dialect use or grade for
the same/different task. In the continuum task, chi-square analyses revealed significant
differences in response patterns attributable to dialect and grade. In addition, a significant
consonant by speaker interaction was found for mean ratings. Correlations between mean
continuum rating and phonological awareness composites were not significant.
In conclusion, it was evident that children who speak AAE present with
differences in their perception of final consonants in VC nonsense syllables. This finding
suggests the dialect speakers may be using different cues to make judgments regarding
the speech signal, or that the speakers of AAE have a less mature ability to extract fine
phonetic detail due to the influence of their dialect (Baran & Seymour, 1979). More
research is warranted to determine the exact role that dialect plays.
Books on the topic "Final consonant devoicing"
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Brockhaus, Wiebke. Final devoicing in the phonology of German. Tübingen: M. Niemeyer, 1995.
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Wiltshire, Caroline R. Emergence of the Unmarked in Indian Englishes with Different Substrates. Edited by Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, and Devyani Sharma. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199777716.013.007.
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This study uses data from Indian English as a second language, spoken by speakers of five first languages, to illustrate and evaluate the role of the emergence of the unmarked (TETU) in phonological theory. The analysis focusses on word-final consonant devoicing and cluster reduction, for which the five Indian first languages have various constraints, while Indian English is relatively unrestricted. Variation in L2 Indian Englishes results from both transfer of L1 phonotactics and the emergence of the unmarked, accounted for within Optimality Theory. The use of a learning algorithm also allows us to test the relative importance of markedness and frequency and to evaluate the relative markedness of various clusters. Thus, data from Indian Englishes provides insight into the form and function of markedness constraints, as well as the mechanisms of Second Language Acquisition (SLA).