Carignan, C;
Coretta, S;
Frahm, J;
Harrington, J;
Hoole, P;
Joseph, A;
Kunay, E;
(2021)
Planting the seed for sound change:
Evidence from real-time MRI of velum kinematics in German.
Language
, 97
(2)
pp. 333-364.
10.1353/lan.2021.0020.
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Abstract
Velum movement signals generated from real-time magnetic resonance imaging videos of thirty-five German speakers were used to investigate the physiological conditions that might promote sound change involving the development of contrastive vowel nasality. The results suggest that, in comparison to when a nasal consonant precedes a voiced obstruent, the velum gesture associated with a nasal consonant preceding a voiceless obstruent undergoes gestural rescaling and temporal rephasing. This further suggests that the diachronic development of contrastive vowel nasality comprises two stages: the first stage involves gestural shortening and realignment, while the second stage involves a trading relationship between source and effect.
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