An EMMA study of segmental compolexity in alveopalatals and palatalized alveolars.
| Number | 1046 |
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| Year | 1997 |
| Drawer | 19 |
| Entry Date | 06/29/1998 |
| Authors | Recasens, Daniel, and Romero, Joaquín. |
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| Publication | Phonetica, 54, 1997, 43-58. |
| url | http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL1046.pdf |
| Abstract | The goal of this paper is to test whether the palatal nasal stop /≠/, occurring in several Romance languages, Hungarian and Czech, is a two-gesture, complex segment (produced with a tongue front closure and intentional tongue dorsum raising) or else a one-gesture, simple segment (articulated at the alveoprepalatal zone with a single tongue portion including the lamina and predorsum). In order to investigate this issue, electromagnetic midsagittal articulometer data were collected on apical, laminal and dorsal movement data for Catalan /≠/ and Russian palatalized /n∆/ (which is known to be a complex segment); other sounds classes of both languages were also recorded, namely, the simple palatal segment /j/ and the two-segmental cluster /nj/. Time lags between position maxima at the tongue front and at the tongue dorsum argue strongly in favor of /≠/ than for /n∆/; moreover, those for /n∆/ were significantly longer than those for /j/ in Russian but not so in Catalan. In conjunction with linguopalatal contact data from the literature, it is argued that a longer time lag for /≠/ vs. /j/ is representative of an unintentional, transitional event resulting from the alveoloprepalatal closure release for the former consonant occurring at the alveolar zone earlier than at the prepalatal zone. |
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