The perceptual cross-over point between a Dutch ‘‘flat-hat’’ contour with an early final fall and one with a late final fall is sensitive to the segmental structure of the syllable accented by the fall . The findings are interpreted in terms of segmental influences on the alignment of accented targets (H*) : voiced segments in the syllable onset and coda pull it leftwards and rightwards , respe...

Perception and production of English cues to plosive voicing by native Mandarin speakers" (2013). Undergraduate Honors Theses. Paper 429. Abstract The acquisition of non-native sounds is a prominent feature of second language acquisition. Mandarin does not permit the voiced plosives /b d g/ or plosives in the syllable coda position, both features of many English words. This disparity presents a...

We analyzed the realizations of French voiced fricatives /,Ʒ/ by German learners of French as a function of learners’ levels and prosodic boundaries. Fricatives are embedded in sentences and appear in final position of an accentual group, but not in sentence final position. Results showed that the performance of the speakers is linked to the way they realized boundaries. In particular, we obse...

This paper applies the gestural alignment constraint schema proposed by Gafos (2002) to unstressed vowel devoicing in Andean Spanish. I will argue that this approach successfully addresses several characteristics identified in novel data from Cusco, Peru that depart from cross-linguistic trends in vowel devoicing and cannot be readily explained in terms of more traditional Articulatory Phonolog...