Spanish non-continuants at the phonology-phonetics interface

The Phonetics-Phonology Interface

To bridge the gap between the dissimilar mechanisms and entities of the phonological grammar and those of the phonetic mechanisms for producing and perceiving speech, the ‘phonetics-phonology interface’ (PPI) has been invoked. In this brief presentation, an introduction to the ICPhS 2003 Symposium on The Phonetics-Phonology Interface, I present an exegesis and taxonomy of the PPI and some citat...

Event Relations At The Phonetics/Phonology Interface

In this paper a procedure for the constrnction of event relations at the phonetics/phonolngy interface is presented. The approach goes further than previous formal interpretations of autosegmental phonology in that phonological relations are explicitly related to intervals in actual speech signals as required by a speech recognition system. An event structure containing the temporal relations o...

The phonetics - phonology interface

Spanish complex onsets and the phonetics–phonology interface*

This study analyzes cross-dialectal phonetic variation in Spanish complex onsets in light of recent work on the phonetics–phonology interface. Two basic patterns of obstruent-rhotic cluster realization, vowel intrusion and coarticulation-induced rhotic assibilation, receive a phonetically-motivated explanation in terms of the temporal coordination of consonantal gestures, within the framework o...

Phonetics-phonology interface and laboratory phonology

Clusters are described by phonotactics, which determines phonological conditions and constraints on the occurrence or co-occurrence of sounds in a given language (e.g., [pstr-] in Polish pstrąg ‘trout’, [-ps] in English lapse). Syllables, morphemes or words serve as domains of phonotactics. However, the functions of phonotactics – to achieve easily pronounceable and perceptable sequences – may ...