Differences in Final /z/ Realization in Southwest and Northern Virginia
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چکیده
Two apparently contradictory observations have been made about consonantal voicing in Southern U.S. English: compared to other varieties, speakers produce more on “voiced” stops, but they also “devoice” word-final /z/ at higher rates. In this article, regional differences final realization within Virginia are investigated. Thirty-six students from Southwest and Northern were recorded completing tasks designed elicit /z/-final tokens. Tokens acoustically analyzed for duration voicing; automatically categorized as being [z] or [s] using an HTK forced aligner. At the surface level, two approaches yield incompatible results: single acoustic measures suggest that Virginians [z]-like tokens than Virginians, aligner finds Southern-identifying participants most [s]-like However, both analyses converge importance of following environment: relatively least voiced prepausally environments. These combined findings confirm previous work showing consonants generally varieties dialect may exhibit greater phrase-final fortition. There Virginian based their rurality orientation South.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Speech
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['0003-1283', '1527-2133']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-9308362