Chapter published in:
Functionalist and Usage-based Approaches to the Study of Language: In honor of Joan L. BybeeEdited by K. Aaron Smith and Dawn Nordquist
[Studies in Language Companion Series 192] 2018
► pp. 127–153
Cumulative exposure to phonetic reducing environments marks the lexicon
Spanish /d-/ words spoken in isolation
Esther L. Brown | University of Colorado Boulder
Reduced pronunciation variants of words commonly arise in discourse contexts
promoting lenition. Words differ in their likelihood of occurrence in
reducing contexts. We test whether words’ cumulative exposure to reducing
environments significantly predicts phonological reduction in experimentally
elicited data. Cumulative exposure is measured as the proportion of times
words arise in phonetic contexts promoting reduced pronunciation variants
(FRC). Results of instrumental analyses of the 503 Spanish word-initial /d-/
tokens produced by 18 native speakers show significant correlations between
articulatory strength of the onset consonant (d-) and words’ production
histories (FRC), independent of the production context. Additionally, linear
modeling reveals a significant effect of FRC in predicting onset intensity.
Results suggest a cumulative effect on the lexicon of words’ production
histories.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Background
- 2.1Lexicalized effects of words’ context histories (FRC)
- 2.2The dependent variable: Spanish /d-/ lenition
- 3.Data and methods
- 3.1Speakers
- 3.2Materials
- 3.3Recording
- 3.4Acoustic measurements
- 4.Results
- 4.1Variation
- 4.2Variation & FRC_
APPROX
- 4.2.1Relative strength of [d] articulations
- 4.2.2Relative strength of approximant realizations [ð]
- 4.2.3Linear modeling of onset variation
- 5.Discussion
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Acknowledgements -
Notes -
References
Published online: 01 March 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.192.06bro
https://doi.org/10.1075/slcs.192.06bro
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