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Effects of obstruent voicing on vowel F 0: Evidence from “true voicing” languages

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Kirby, James P., Ladd, D. Robert·2016·The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
DOI 10.1121/1.4962445
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This study investigates consonant-related F0 perturbations (“CF0”) in French and Italian by comparing the effects of voiced and voiceless obstruents on F0 to those of voiced sonorants. The voiceless obstruents /p f/ in both languages are found to have F0-raising properties similar to American English voiceless obstruents, while F0 following the (pre)voiced obstruents /b v/ in French and Italian patterns together with /m/, again similar to English [Hanson (2009). J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 125(1), 425–441]. In both languages, F0 is significantly depressed, relative to sonorants, during the closure for voiced obstruents, but cannot be differentiated from sonorants following the release of oral constriction. These findings are taken as support for a model on which F0 perturbations are fundamentally the result of laryngeal maneuvers initiated to sustain or inhibit phonation, regardless of other language-particular aspects of phonetic realization.

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Metadata

Authors
Kirby, J. P., & Ladd, D. R.
Affiliations
University of Edinburgh (GB)
ORCID
Kirby, James P.
Venue
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Publisher
Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
Published
2016-10-01
Volume
140
Issue
4
Pages
2400-2411
ISSN
  • 0001-4966 (ISSN-L)
  • 1520-8524
DOI
10.1121/1.4962445
OpenAlex
W2529358185
Cited by
87
References
59
Citations by year
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FWCI
7.99
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Edinburgh Research Explorer (University of Edinburgh) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
University of Edinburgh
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phonetics and Phonology Research
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › Speech and Hearing › Voice and Speech Disorders
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Linguistics and language evolution
Keywords
obstruent voicing, fundamental frequency, voiced obstruents, voiceless obstruents, sonorants, French language, Italian, phonation
MeSH terms
Humans, Italy, Language, Phonation, Phonetics, Voice

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