Aerodynamic tool for phonology of voicing

Accommodation to the Aerodynamic Voicing Constraint and its Phonological Relevance

The aerodynamic voicing constraint presents the speaker with some physical limits on maintaining voicing during obstruents. Languages‘ phonologies reveal a variety of strategies in the face of this constraint. These strategies raise serious questions about constraints in Optimality Theory (OT).

Perception of initial obstruent voicing is influenced by gestural organization

Cross-language differences in phonetic settings for phonological contrasts of stop voicing have posed a challenge for attempts to relate specific phonological features to specific phonetic details. We probe the phonetic-phonological relationship for voicing contrasts more broadly, analyzing in particular their relevance to nonnative speech perception, from two theoretical perspectives: feature ...

Usage-based phonology and simulations as means to investigate unitinuitive voicing behavior

Beyond Laboratory Phonology The Phonetics of Speech Communication

This paper critically examines the practices of laboratory phonology, regarding two issues that have received extensive analysis in a framework of 'phonology-going-into-the-lab': neutralization of voicing and f0 alignment. A plea is made for a new paradigm of 'phonologycoming-out-of-the-lab', built on function, time, and the listener as fundamental pillars of speech communication.

Postnasal Voicing

Many of the world’s languages display a phonetic pattern whereby obstruents appear as voiced when following a nasal consonant. This article proposes a phonetic mechanism that favors postnasal voicing. The mechanism is based on two effects, which sometimes reinforce, and sometimes contradict each another. One effect is “nasal leak,” the leakage of air through a nearly closed velar port during th...