The study was designed to test a coarticulatory origin for the long-short segment duration pattern typical of syllable onset clusters. The hypothesis was that the internal members of these clusters are shortened due to coproduction with the following vowel. Specifically, the internal consonants are terminated when the downward-moving jaw makes for inefficient consonantal articulation. To test t...

hiatus is a situation in which there is no consonant between the nuclei of two adjacent syllables. it occurs when the left syllable lacks a coda while the right one lacks an onset. hiatus occurs in underlying representation or at a level between underlying and phonetic representations. its occurrence is expected in every language, but its resolution is obligatory in languages which require syll...

The influence of consonant aspiration on the F0 contours of tones in Mandarin Chinese was tested in continuous speech by reference to a minimal pair of syllables, /ta/ and /tÓa/, which differ only in terms of aspiration. It was found that, consonant aspiration affects the fundamental frequency (F0) of the following vowel. The onset F0 of a tone is higher following unaspirated consonants than fo...

1 A challenge for OT 1.1 Compensatory lengthening as weight conservation Compensatory lengthening occurs when the featural content of a nucleus or moraic coda is deleted, or becomes reaffiliated with a nonmoraic position — typically an onset — and the vacated mora, instead of being lost, is retained with new content (Hayes 1989). Compensatory lengthening is most often triggered by the deletion ...

This preliminary study addresses two complementary questions about the production of sandhi phenomena in French. First, we investigated whether the encoding of enchaînement and liaison enchaînée involves a processing cost compared to non-resyllabified sequences. This question was analyzed with a psycholinguistic production time paradigm. The elicited sequences were then used to address our seco...

4990 bi-syllabic English words were syllabified by about 22 native speakers who choose between different slash divisions (e.g. photon: FOW / TAHN, FOWT / AHN). Results for test items with one medial consonant are reported in Eddington, Treiman, & Elzinga (2013). In the present paper, the regression analysis of words with two, three, and four medial consonants are discussed. A model in which syl...

This paper reports an analysis of the production of implosive and prenasalized sounds by 6 children (3 Fulfulde and 3 Bambara) from the onset of babbling to the end of their first year. It shows that the production of implosive consonant-like sounds by the children is very early on language-specific i.e related to the presence of these consonants in the language the children are exposed to. Unl...

This research aims to examine Sundanese students' proficiency and errors in performing final consonant clusters English. The used a qualitative approach. participants this were 40 college students. Their mother tongue was Sundanese. data recordings, which collected through pronunciation test of the target provided word list. A perceptual approach applied analyze recordings. results found that s...

Two acoustic studies of voice onset time (VOT) in sibilant–stop (ST) consonant clusters, produced by first language (L1) speakers Polish, are presented. In the first, a baseline study L1 Polish comparing ST clusters with initial singleton stops, small degree VOT shortening after /s/ was found for /p/, but not /t/. The second compared productions (L2) English across two levels proficiency, speak...