Pouplier, Marianne;
Rodriquez, Francesco;
Alderton, Roy;
Lo, Justin JH;
Reinisch, Eva;
Evans, Bronwen;
Carignan, Christopher;
(2023)
The window of opportunity: Anticipatory nasal coarticulation in three languages.
In: Skarnitzl, Radek and Volín, Jan, (eds.)
Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences – ICPhS 2023.
(pp. pp. 2085-2089).
International Phonetic Association: Prague, Czech Republic.
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Abstract
This paper compares anticipatory nasal coarticulation in American English, French, and German. These languages differ in whether nasality is contrastive (French), phonologized but not contrastive (American English), or neither (German). We measure nasal intensity during a specific temporal interval preceding a nasal or oral control consonant. In English, coarticulation has the greatest temporal extent whereas in French, anticipatory nasalization is more constrained. German differs from English, but not French. While results confirm some of the expected languagespecific effects, they underscore that the temporal extent of anticipatory nasal coarticulation can be greater than often reported if this is allowed for by the stimulus material. For all languages, the onset of coarticulation may considerably precede the prenasal vowel in VN sequences, especially so for English. Overall, our data further add to our understanding of the non-local temporal scope of anticipatory coarticulation and its language specific expressions.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | The window of opportunity: Anticipatory nasal coarticulation in three languages |
| Event: | 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences |
| Location: | Prague, Czechia |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/i... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © Authors. This in an open access publication licenced by the authors of papers under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en. |
| Keywords: | Nasality; anticipatory coarticulation; phonological contrast; long-distance coarticulation |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10201216 |
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