Lenition of intervocalic alveolar fricatives in Catalan and Spanish

Mostra el registre complet Registre parcial de l'ítem

• dc.contributor.author Prieto Vives, Pilar, 1965-ca
• dc.contributor.author Hualde, José Ignacio
• dc.date.accessioned 2017-07-21T10:01:55Z
• dc.date.available 2017-07-21T10:01:55Z
• dc.date.issued 2014
• dc.description.abstract We offer an acoustic study of variation in the realization of intervocalic alveolar fricatives in Catalan and Spanish. We consider the effects of phonological inventory (Catalan has a distinction between /s/ and /z/ that Spanish lacks) and position in word (i.e. effects of word boundaries). An analysis of a corpus of Map Task interviews in Catalan and Spanish revealed that Spanish word-medial and initial intervocalic /s/ segments are shorter than in Catalan. Whereas our results are consistent with the predictions of theories incorporating functional principles (i.e. contrast preservation), we also consider other possible explanations of the facts. The analysis also revealed that Spanish word-final intervocalic /s/ segments are weaker along the two dimensions that we examined (duration and voicing) than their initial and medial counterparts. We suggest that this apparently morphological effect on lenition has an articulatory explanation in terms of gestural coordination.en
• dc.description.sponsorship Collaboration between the two authors was facilitated by a grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education that allowed the first author to spend part of a sabbatical semester in Barcelona (Beca de movilidad SAB2010-0141). Prieto’s research has been supported by Spain’s Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (research grants FFI2009-07648/FILO and BFU2012-31995), as well as by a grant awarded by the Generalitat de Catalunya (2009SGR-701).en
• dc.format.mimetype application/pdf
• dc.identifier.citation Hualde JI, Prieto P. Lenition of intervocalic alveolar fricatives in Catalan and Spanish. Phonetica. 2014 Oct;71:109-27. DOI: 10.1159/000368197
• dc.identifier.issn 0031-8388
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/32594
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Karger (S. Karger AG)ca
• dc.relation.ispartof Phonetica. 2014 Oct;71:109-27
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/FFI2012-31995
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/FFI2009-07648
• dc.rights © 2015 S. Karger AG, Basel http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000368197 This is the peer-reviewed but unedited manuscript version of the following article: Phonetica 2015 Jan;71(2):109-127 (DOI: 10.1159/000368197). The final, published version is available at http://www.karger.com/?doi=10.1159/000368197.
• dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• dc.subject.other Català - Entonació
• dc.subject.other Castellà - Entonació
• dc.subject.other Català - Fonètica
• dc.subject.other Castellà - Fonètica
• dc.subject.other Entonació (Fonètica)
• dc.title Lenition of intervocalic alveolar fricatives in Catalan and Spanishca
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
• dc.type.version info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion