Velar lateral allophony in Mee (Ekari)

Acoustic Properties of the Kuman Voiceless Velar Lateral Fricative

Selected timeand frequency-domain acoustic features of the voiceless allophone of the exotic velar lateral fricative in the Papuan language Kuman are described for one male speaker. This comprises specification of F-pattern and its co-articulation with the preceding vowel, and the articulatory interpretation of spectrographic details, including a (for fricatives) unexpected transient.

Combining Indicators of Allophony

Allophonic rules are responsible for the great variety in phoneme realizations. Infants can not reliably infer abstract word representations without knowledge of their native allophonic grammar. We explore the hypothesis that some properties of infants’ input, referred to as indicators, are correlated with allophony. First, we provide an extensive evaluation of individual indicators that rely o...

Gradience, allophony, and chain shifts

The monophthongization of /ay/ in the Southern United States is disfavored by following voiceless consonants (PRICE) relative to voiced or word-final environments (PRIZE). If monophthongization is the trigger for the Southern Shift (Labov, 2010) and chain shifts operate as predicted by a modular feedforward phonological theory (cf. Bermúdez-Otero, 2007), this implies PRICE and PRIZE must be two...

Velar Fronting Revisited

Supralaryngeal control in Korean velar stops

The aim of this study was to investigate the supralaryngeal control of the production of the Korean three-way contrast in velar stops. First, an EMA-experiment with three Korean speakers was carried out, and the kinematic properties of the tongue back were analyzed (length of the deceleration phase of the movement, peak velocity, peak acceleration, amplitude and duration of the looping movement...