This research investigates children’s knowledge of how surface pronunciations of lexical items vary according to their phonological and morphological context. Dutch-learning children aged 2.5 and 3.5 years were tested on voicing neutralization and morphophonological alternations. For instance, voicing does not alternate between the pair [pɛt]∼[pɛtən] (cap∼caps) but does in [bɛt]∼[bɛdən] (bed∼be...

This study is an investigation of flaps and trills in Najdi Hijazi Arabic, which are the most spoken Arabic varieties Saudi Arabia. It focuses on how behave relation to vowels consonants two Arabic. The data this were collected from four five participants. A total number 730 sentences read by was found that /r/, underlying phoneme, surfaces as [r] when it occurs word-initially or after a [-coro...

Icelandic has a phonological process which devoices sonorants after voioed segments in domain-final position, but to date the category of the relevant domain and potential further factors affecting it have not been identified. The present paper studies final devoicing of IV, by which IV is realized as the voiceless lateral fricative [f] in domain-final position. It reports on the results of an ...

This paper considers two phenomena in Tz'utujil (Mayan) phonology: final sonorant devoicing and aspiration of plain (pulmonic) stops affricates. Both occur word-internally coda position, as well word-finally. I present an Optimality-Theoretic (OT) analysis which accounts for both these via positional constraints on [spread glottis] ([SG]). also attested variation across the Mayan language famil...

Studies of Portuguese phonetics and phonology indicate that fricatives are central to some interesting features of the language, yet studies of Portuguese fricatives have been few and limited. In this study, Portuguese fricatives were analyzed in ways designed to enhance our description of the language and to increase our understanding of the production of fricatives. Corpora of Portuguese word...

Does experience with a perceptual cue for a phoneme contrast in the native language affect its use in a second language for a similar contrast in a different phonetic context? Two experiments investigated Dutch and English listeners' use of preceding vowel duration as a perceptual cue for nonword-final fricative voicing in English. Dutch listeners have native language experience with the use of...

This study investigates the extent of voicing in the voiced plosives /b, d/ across a range of phonetic contexts in Irish English. Spectrographic and waveform analysis showed that /b, d/ were almost always voiceless sentence-initially, substantially devoiced sentence-finally, and varied considerably sentence-medially. Further analysis of sentencemedial position found that if the plosive was part...