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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 …
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 …
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.
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.