VELAR VOCALIZATION OR DELETION?

Velar Fronting Revisited

Gapping: Movement or Deletion

Based on Johnson's (1994) across-the-board (ATB) movement analysis of Gapping, Agbayani and Zoerner (2004) argue that Gapping involves the application of sideward movement of the main verb out of coordinate structures. In this paper, I show that the verb movement analyses of Gapping are problematic. Ultimately, I maintain that Gapping is a discourse-oriented variant of TP ellipsis. More precise...

Substantive Bias and Velar Palatalization

There is an active debate within the field of phonology concerning the cognitive status of substantive phonetic factors such as ease of articulation and perceptual distinctiveness. A new framework is proposed in which substance functions as a bias, or prior, on phonological learning. Two experiments tested this framework with a method in which participants are provided highly impoverished evide...

Velar Movements for Two French Speakers

This study compares velar movements for nasal vowels and consonants; it investigates contextual nasalisation; and it provides new data on how nasalisation is affected by speech rate. Velar position is measured with an electromagnetic articulatograph (EMA) for two French speakers. Our results confirm that (i) nasal vowels are produced with a lower velum height than nasal consonants; (ii) the con...

Supralaryngeal control in Korean velar stops

The aim of this study was to investigate the supralaryngeal control of the production of the Korean three-way contrast in velar stops. First, an EMA-experiment with three Korean speakers was carried out, and the kinematic properties of the tongue back were analyzed (length of the deceleration phase of the movement, peak velocity, peak acceleration, amplitude and duration of the looping movement...