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Articulation And Acoustics Of Kannada Affricates: A Case Of Geminate /ʧ/, Alexei Kochetov, N. Sreedevi
Articulation And Acoustics Of Kannada Affricates: A Case Of Geminate /ʧ/, Alexei Kochetov, N. Sreedevi
Alexei Kochetov
Affricates have been observed to be problematic in phonological acquisition and disordered speech across languages, due to their relatively complex spatial and temporal articulatory patterns. Remediation of difficulties in the production of affricates requires understanding of how these sounds are typically produced. This study presents the first systematic articulatory and acoustic investigation of voiceless geminate affricate /ʧ/ in Kannada (a Dravidian language), compared to the palatal glide and the voiceless dental stop. Ultrasound data from 10 normal speakers from Mysore, India revealed that /ʧ/ is produced with the tongue shape intermediate between the palatal glide and the dental stop, and …
On The Incompatibility Of Trilling And Palatalization: A Single-Subject Study Of Sustained Apical And Uvular Trills, Alexei Kochetov, Phil Howson
On The Incompatibility Of Trilling And Palatalization: A Single-Subject Study Of Sustained Apical And Uvular Trills, Alexei Kochetov, Phil Howson
Alexei Kochetov
The production of trills requires precise articulatory and aerodynamic settings, which appear to be hardly compatible with secondary palatalization – the raising and fronting of the tongue body. Yet, the precise reasons for this incompatibility are still poorly understood, largely given the paucity of articulatory work on trills. Moreover, previous investigations of palatalized trills have been limited to apicals (alveolars/dentals), raising the question of whether the suggested factors are general to all lingual trills, including uvulars, or are specific to apical trills. This paper presents an exploratory investigation of sustained palatalized and non-palatalized apical (phonemic) and uvular trills (idiolectal) produced …
Voicing And Tongue-Palate Contact Differences In Japanese Obstruents, Alexei Kochetov
Voicing And Tongue-Palate Contact Differences In Japanese Obstruents, Alexei Kochetov
Alexei Kochetov
The paper presents an electropalatographic investigation of supralaryngeal correlates of voicing in Japanese obstruents. Intervocalic voiced and voiceless stops and fricatives in different vowel contexts were elicited from 5 Japanese speakers wearing custom-made artificial palates with 64 electrodes. The results revealed systematic differences between voiced and voiceless consonants of the same place and manner, yet markedly different for stops and fricatives. While voiced stops showed less linguopalatal contact than voiceless stops, voiced fricatives showed the opposite – more contact and a narrower central groove than the respective voiceless fricatives. Both patterns are consistent with previous findings on voicing in other …
Spatial And Dynamic Aspects Of Retroflex Production: An Ultrasound And Ema Study Of Kannada Geminate Stops, Alexei Kochetov, N. Sreedevi, Midula Kasim, R. Manjula
Spatial And Dynamic Aspects Of Retroflex Production: An Ultrasound And Ema Study Of Kannada Geminate Stops, Alexei Kochetov, N. Sreedevi, Midula Kasim, R. Manjula
Alexei Kochetov
Abstract: This study investigates the production of geminate retroflex stops in Kannada using a combination of ultrasound and articulography. Data obtained from 10 native speakers of the language show that the retroflex gesture is dynamically complex and asymmetrical, involving an anticipatory retraction of the tongue tip, followed by the raising of this articulator towards the hard palate, and subsequent rapid flapping-out movement during the closure and the release. The retroflex constriction and the forward movement appear to be facilitated by the simultaneous fronting of the posterior tongue body, flattening of the anterior tongue body, and lowering of the jaw. Compared …
Examining The Extent Of Anticipatory Coronal Coarticulation: A Long-Term Average Spectrum Analysis, Alexei Kochetov, Christopher Neufeld
Examining The Extent Of Anticipatory Coronal Coarticulation: A Long-Term Average Spectrum Analysis, Alexei Kochetov, Christopher Neufeld
Alexei Kochetov
Phonetic studies of English liquids /r/ and /l/ have shown these consonants can exert strong coarticulatory effects on both adjacent and non-adjacent vowels. The current study investigated local and long-range effects of coronals /l/, /r/, and /d/ in Canadian English. Fourteen speakers were recorded reading the sentences 'We thought it might be a ram/lamb/dam/ham'. Formants F1-F3 and long-term average spectra (LTAS) of 5 vowels preceding the target consonants were calculated and compared to baseline values. The results revealed significant differences between the coronal consonants and the control (/h/) in up to 4 preceding syllables. Formant differences in non-adjacent syllables were …
An Electropalatography (Epg) Study Of Nasal-Trill/Lateral Sequences In Spanish, Alexei Kochetov, Laura Colantoni
An Electropalatography (Epg) Study Of Nasal-Trill/Lateral Sequences In Spanish, Alexei Kochetov, Laura Colantoni
Alexei Kochetov
Trills and laterals require relatively precise articulatory and aerodynamic settings that are at least partly incompatible with setting necessary to produce nasal stops. Historically, this incompatibility has often been resolved through assimilation, deletion, or epenthesis in within-word [n+r] and [n+l] clusters (e.g. in Romance). It is expected that similar, yet gradient effects would be observed in across-word or hetero-morphemic sequences of nasals and liquids. This study examines the production of Spanish nasal-liquid sequences using electropalatography (EPG). Linguopalatal contact data were collected from 9 native speakers of Spanish (representing 3 dialects) producing various utterances with nasals before /r/ and /l/ (as …
A Preliminary Ultrasound Study Of Nepali Lingual Articulations, Alexei Kochetov, Marianne Pouplier, Sarah Truong
A Preliminary Ultrasound Study Of Nepali Lingual Articulations, Alexei Kochetov, Marianne Pouplier, Sarah Truong
Alexei Kochetov
Previous descriptive and phonetic works on Nepali provided conflicting accounts of place contrasts in coronal consonants. Specifically, apical stops were characterized as either retroflex or alveolar, while laminal affricates were described as either alveolar or palatal. Some of these works used static palatography, which shows the contact between the tongue and the palate, but provides no information about the tongue shape for a given consonant or its dynamic properties. In this study we used ultrasound to image tongue shapes for various Nepali lingual consonants produced by a single native speaker of Brahmin dialect. The results showed that the speaker’s apical …
Analysis Of Tongue Shapes During The Production Of Kannada Consonants, Alexei Kochetov, N. Sreedevi, Midula Kasim
Analysis Of Tongue Shapes During The Production Of Kannada Consonants, Alexei Kochetov, N. Sreedevi, Midula Kasim
Alexei Kochetov
No abstract provided.
A Pilot Ultrasound Study Of Kannada Lingual Articulations, Alexei Kochetov, N. Sreedevi, Midula Kasim, R. Manjula
A Pilot Ultrasound Study Of Kannada Lingual Articulations, Alexei Kochetov, N. Sreedevi, Midula Kasim, R. Manjula
Alexei Kochetov
Ultrasound has been increasingly used in phonetic and speech science research, often as a less invasive and less costly alternative to other instrumental articulatory methods. Some details of the methodology of ultrasound data collection and analysis, however, have not yet been well established, or are not fully applicable to the study of speech language disorders. This study explores the use of an ultra-portable ultrasound system – a SeeMore USB probe – to study the production of several lingual consonants of Kannada. Multiple repetitions of words with 4 consonants - voiceless dental, retroflex, alveolopalatal and velar stops/affricates – were produced by …
Linguopalatal Contact Differences Between Japanese Geminate And Singleton Stops, Alexei Kochetov
Linguopalatal Contact Differences Between Japanese Geminate And Singleton Stops, Alexei Kochetov
Alexei Kochetov
No abstract provided.
Nasal Variability And Speech Style: An Epg Study Of Word-Final Nasals In Two Spanish Dialects, Laura Colantoni, Alexei Kochetov
Nasal Variability And Speech Style: An Epg Study Of Word-Final Nasals In Two Spanish Dialects, Laura Colantoni, Alexei Kochetov
Alexei Kochetov
Nasal consonants are notoriously prone to variation caused by various phonetic and sociolinguistic factors. A study of nasal variability in Spanish is of particular interest, as Spanish dialects neutralize their three-way nasal place contrast in coda position to either alveolar or velar nasals. For example, in Peninsular and Argentine Spanish final nasals are realized as alveolar, while in Caribbean varieties as velar. A number of sociolinguistic studies have concentrated on nasal variability in velarizing dialects. However, cross-dialectal comparisons have mostly relied on auditory-based transcriptions of sociolinguistic interviews, and articulatory investigations of velarizing Caribbean dialects are so far lacking. The goal …
Retroflex Harmony In Kalasha: Agreement Or Spreading?, Paul Arsenault, Alexei Kochetov
Retroflex Harmony In Kalasha: Agreement Or Spreading?, Paul Arsenault, Alexei Kochetov
Alexei Kochetov
No abstract provided.
Coronal Place Contrasts In Argentine And Cuban Spanish: An Electropalatographic Study, Alexei Kochetov, Laura Colantoni
Coronal Place Contrasts In Argentine And Cuban Spanish: An Electropalatographic Study, Alexei Kochetov, Laura Colantoni
Alexei Kochetov
Theoretical and descriptive work on Spanish phonetics and phonology has been largely based on Peninsular varieties. This study uses electropalatography (EPG) to investigate articulatory characteristics of coronal consonant contrasts in Argentine and Cuban Spanish. Simultaneous EPG and acoustic data were collected from five speakers from Buenos Aires (Argentina) and three speakers from Havana (Cuba) reading sentences with various syllable-initial coronal consonants corresponding to the orthographic . As a control, the same data were collected from a single speaker of Peninsular Spanish from Madrid. As expected, the main distinction in both varieties was made between anterior and posterior coronal consonants ((denti-)alveolars …
Scales And Patterns Of Expressive Palatalization: Experimental Evidence From Japanese, Alexei Kochetov, John Alderete
Scales And Patterns Of Expressive Palatalization: Experimental Evidence From Japanese, Alexei Kochetov, John Alderete
Alexei Kochetov
This paper argues for the existence of expressive palatalization (E-Pal) – a phonologically unmotivated process that applies in sound symbolism, diminutive constructions, and babytalk registers. E-Pal is proposed to be grounded in iconic sound-meaning associations exploiting acoustic properties of palatalized consonants, and thus is inherently different from regular phonological palatalization (P-Pal). A cross-linguistic survey of patterns of E-Pal in 37 languages shows that it exhibits a set of properties different from P-Pal. As a case study, the paper focuses on patterns of palatalization in Japanese mimetic vocabulary and babytalk. Two experiments tested native speaker intuitions of these patterns and revealed …
Vot Drift In Three Generations Of Heritage Language Speakers In Toronto, Melania Hrycyna, Natalia Lapinskaya, Alexei Kochetov, Naomi Nagy
Vot Drift In Three Generations Of Heritage Language Speakers In Toronto, Melania Hrycyna, Natalia Lapinskaya, Alexei Kochetov, Naomi Nagy
Alexei Kochetov
No abstract provided.
Coarticulation And Assimilation In Korean Vowel Epenthesis, Kyumin Kim, Alexei Kochetov
Coarticulation And Assimilation In Korean Vowel Epenthesis, Kyumin Kim, Alexei Kochetov
Alexei Kochetov
This paper investigates acoustic properties of epenthetic vowels used in the adaptation of English loanwords with final obstruents in Korean (e.g. phokhI < folk, phochi < poach). An extensive analysis of spectral and durational properties of these vowels produced by six speakers of Seoul Korean reveals that loanword epenthesis is a categorical vowel insertion process. The quality of epenthetic vowels in the data was essentially identical to that of the native high vowels /i/ and /I/, depending on the place of articulation of the preceding consonant. Duration of epenthetic vowels was also similar to that of native vowels. These findings provide evidence for the phonological status of epenthesis and vowel coloring in loanwords into Korean, supporting some previous phonological accounts of the phenomenon, while questioning others. Importantly, the categorical vowel coloring in loanwords is different from gradient coarticulatory effects exerted by preceding consonants and non-adjacent vowels, which were also observed in the data. This underscores the importance of careful experimental investigation of vowel epenthesis, as a way of teasing apart phonological processes and phonetic effects.
Alveolar-To-Rhotic Coarticulation In North American English: A Preliminary Epg Study, Alexei Kochetov
Alveolar-To-Rhotic Coarticulation In North American English: A Preliminary Epg Study, Alexei Kochetov
Alexei Kochetov
This paper reports results of an electropalatographic (EPG) study of alveolar-torhotic coarticulation in North American English. Data with alveolars /d/ and /n/ occurring in various rhotic contexts were collected from a single female speaker. The results showed a continuum of backing of the primary constriction from alveolar to post-alveolar or retroflex as a function of the absence or presence of one or more rhotic segments in the word and their proximity to the alveolar. These findings are interpreted as coarticulation of alveolars to the more constrained rhotic approximant and rhotacized vowels, and to different degrees of overlap of alveolar and …
Palatalisation, Alexei Kochetov
Gestural Coordination In Spanish /S/ Weakening: An Electropalatographic Study, Alexei Kochetov, Laura Colantoni
Gestural Coordination In Spanish /S/ Weakening: An Electropalatographic Study, Alexei Kochetov, Laura Colantoni
Alexei Kochetov
This study uses electropalatography to investigate syllable-final weakening of /s/ in Argentine Spanish. Results from 5 speakers from Buenos Aires show that the process applies consistently to /s/ before consonants, both within and across words. The phonetic realization of the fricative varies systematically as a function of place of articulation of the following consonant, and is to some extent affected by word boundaries and stress.
Spanish Nasal Assimilation Revisited: A Cross-Dialect Electropalatographic Study, Alexei Kochetov, Laura Colantoni
Spanish Nasal Assimilation Revisited: A Cross-Dialect Electropalatographic Study, Alexei Kochetov, Laura Colantoni
Alexei Kochetov
This study employs electropalatography to investigate the implementation of nasal assimilation in two Spanish dialects (Argentine and Cuban) that differ in the realization of word-final nasals as alveolar or velar. 5 speakers of Argentine and 3 speakers of Cuban Spanish were presented with various utterances containing nasals followed by labial, coronal, and dorsal stops and fricatives under two stress conditions. Results revealed that place assimilation of nasals was consistently accompanied by stricture assimilation. The process was generally categorical, that is, the final alveolar or velar nasal adopted the articulation of the following consonant. Nasal + fricative sequences, however, showed a …
Latent Consonant Harmony In Russian: Experimental Evidence For Agreement By Correspondence, Alexei Kochetov, Milica Radisic
Latent Consonant Harmony In Russian: Experimental Evidence For Agreement By Correspondence, Alexei Kochetov, Milica Radisic
Alexei Kochetov
No abstract provided.
Japanese Mimetic Palatalization Revisited: Implications For Conflicting Directionality, John Alderete, Alexei Kochetov
Japanese Mimetic Palatalization Revisited: Implications For Conflicting Directionality, John Alderete, Alexei Kochetov
Alexei Kochetov
This article re-examines ‘conflicting directionality ’ in Japanese mimetic words, a distributional pattern in which palatalisation is preferentially realised on the rightmost of two coronal consonants, but on the leftmost consonant in a word without coronals. Analysis of the original dictionary evidence given in support of this generalisation and an exhaustive search of the Japanese mimetic stratum reveal both several counterexamples to conflicting directionality and the fact that the datasets are far too small to support linguistic generalisation. The theoretical assumptions employed to account for Japanese mimetic palatalisation are thus re-examined, with a focus on clarifying the predictions for future …
Phonetic Variation And Gestural Specification Of Russian Consonants, Alexei Kochetov
Phonetic Variation And Gestural Specification Of Russian Consonants, Alexei Kochetov
Alexei Kochetov
No abstract provided.
Perception Of Gestural Overlap And Self-Organizing Phonological Contrasts, Alexei Kochetov
Perception Of Gestural Overlap And Self-Organizing Phonological Contrasts, Alexei Kochetov
Alexei Kochetov
No abstract provided.
Phonetic Variability And Grammatical Knowledge: An Articulatory Study Of Korean Place Assimilation, Alexei Kochetov, Marianne Pouplier
Phonetic Variability And Grammatical Knowledge: An Articulatory Study Of Korean Place Assimilation, Alexei Kochetov, Marianne Pouplier
Alexei Kochetov
The study reported here uses articulatory data to investigate Korean place assimilation of coronal stops followed by labial or velar stops, both within words and across words. The results show that this place-assimilation process is highly variable, both within and across speakers, and is also sensitive to factors such as the place of articulation of the following consonant, the presence of a word boundary and, to some extent, speech rate. Gestures affected by the process are generally reduced categorically (deleted), while sporadic gradient reduction of gestures is also observed. We further compare the results for coronals to our previous findings …
Place Assimilation And Phonetic Grounding: A Cross-Linguistic Perceptual Study, Alexei Kochetov, Connie K. So
Place Assimilation And Phonetic Grounding: A Cross-Linguistic Perceptual Study, Alexei Kochetov, Connie K. So
Alexei Kochetov
This paper investigates predictions made by the ‘phonetic knowledge hypothesis’ (Jun 1995, 2004, Hayes & Steriade 2004) about the relation between perceptibility of stops and common patterns of major place assimilation. In two perceptual experiments, stimuli with Russian released and unreleased voiceless stops in clusters were presented for identification of 56 listeners, native speakers of Russian, Canadian English, Korean and Taiwanese Mandarin. Percentages of correct responses and reaction time data were used to determine scales of perceptual salience. Results reveal considerable perceptual differences between places of articulation, consistent across four language groups. Perceptual salience of place of articulation was strongly …
Komi-Permyak Coronal Obstruents: Acoustic Contrasts And Positional Variation, Alexei Kochetov, Alevtina Lobanova
Komi-Permyak Coronal Obstruents: Acoustic Contrasts And Positional Variation, Alexei Kochetov, Alevtina Lobanova
Alexei Kochetov
Komi-Permyak (Finno-Ugric) has a typologically rare contrast between palatal stops and palatal affricates; the latter are also contrastive with postalveolar affricates. In addition, the language has a relatively uncommon three-way place contrast among sibilant fricatives. This paper investigates acoustic properties of the Komi-Permyak voiceless coronal obstruents in different positional contexts. An acoustic analysis of data from six native speakers of the language revealed that the contrasts were well differentiated by a combination of duration, noise intensity, spectral shapes, and vowel transitions – consistently with previous studies of similar consonants in other languages. The results also showed some positional differences in …
Cross-Language Differences In Overlap And Assimilation Patterns In Korean And Russian, Alexei Kochetov, Marianne Pouplier, Minjung Son
Cross-Language Differences In Overlap And Assimilation Patterns In Korean And Russian, Alexei Kochetov, Marianne Pouplier, Minjung Son
Alexei Kochetov
This paper investigates cross-linguistic differences in gestural overlap in consonant clusters and discusses how different patterns of overlap may interact with language-specific place assimilation patterns. We examine Russian and Korean stopstop sequences within and across words, produced at two speaking rates. Significant differences in degrees of overlap emerge between the two languages for both prosodic conditions. We discuss to what extent language-specific differences in overlap can be linked to the language-specific propensity for articulatory place assimilation.
The Role Of Gestural Overlap In Perceptual Place Assimilation: Evidence From Korean, Minjung Son, Alexei Kochetov, Marianne Pouplier
The Role Of Gestural Overlap In Perceptual Place Assimilation: Evidence From Korean, Minjung Son, Alexei Kochetov, Marianne Pouplier
Alexei Kochetov
Opposing views have emerged in phonological and phonetic theory on whether perceptual place assimilation is exclusively attributable to gestural reduction or can be triggered by gestural overlap as well. Specifically, regressive place assimilation in Korean /pk/ clusters has been used as argument for the hypothesis that gestural reduction is uniquely responsible for perceptual place assimilation, yet the empirical evidence for this reduction hypothesis is ambiguous. The present study demonstrates on the basis of articulatory movement data that in these /pk/ clusters the lip gesture for /p/ is either fully present (with varying degrees of overlap) or completely absent. Our data …
The Role Of Social Factors In The Dynamics Of Sound Change: A Case Study Of A Russian Dialect, Alexei Kochetov
The Role Of Social Factors In The Dynamics Of Sound Change: A Case Study Of A Russian Dialect, Alexei Kochetov
Alexei Kochetov
This article presents results of a sociolinguistic study of a Northern Russian dialect as spoken in a small rural community of Pokcha in the Western Urals, Russia. Because of a number of social influences, the dialect has been undergoing a rapid shift towards Standard Russian. The study examines two sound changes in progress: (1) a merger of unstressed mid back vowels and (2) a split of a post-alveolar fricative into two phonemes. The focus of the study is on the role of social factors—age, mobility, education, and sex—in determining the dynamics of the two rather different phonological processes.