It has been claimed that in Majorcan Catalan /b/ tends to be realized as a stop in contexts where Central Catalan /b/ has approximant realizations. Here we test this claim using two continuous dimensions that we take as acoustic correlates of degree of constriction. We also examine the relative degree of constriction of Majorcan /b/ with respect to /d/ and /g/. We argue that Majorcan Catalan is less advanced in the historical weakening of /b/ than other dialects. Against other proposals, we maintain that a principle of contrast preservation is not required in order to explain the phonetic facts.
2019. Type of early bilingualism and its effect on the acoustic realization of allophonic variants: Early sequential and simultaneous bilinguals. International Journal of Bilingualism 23:5 ► pp. 954 ff.
Broś, Karolina & Katarzyna Lipowska
2019. Gran Canarian Spanish Non-Continuant Voicing: Gradiency, Sex Differences and Perception. Phonetica 76:2-3 ► pp. 100 ff.
Broś, Karolina, Marzena Żygis, Adam Sikorski & Jan Wołłejko
2021. Phonological contrasts and gradient effects in ongoing lenition in the Spanish of Gran Canaria. Phonology 38:1 ► pp. 1 ff.
Hualde, José I., Christopher D. Eager & Marianna Nadeu
2015. Catalan voiced prepalatals: Effects of nonphonetic factors on phonetic variation?. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 45:3 ► pp. 243 ff.
Ramsammy, Michael & Matthew King
2023. Edge strengthening and phonetic variability in Spanish /l/: an ultrasound study. Phonetica 80:3-4 ► pp. 259 ff.
Recasens, Daniel
2016. The Effect of Contextual Consonants on Voiced Stop Lenition: Evidence from Catalan. Language and Speech 59:1 ► pp. 139 ff.
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