Coordinating Voicing Onset with Articulation: A Potential Role for Sensory Cues in Shaping Phonological Distinctions
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Abstract
In the typical speech of any language, voicing onset and offset are effortlessly coordinated with articulation as part of the intrinsic coordination of sound production. In this paper, we argue that voicing-articulatory coordination patterns could be shaped by sensory feedback during early speech learning and these patterns persist in mature syllable productions. Our experimental results show that voicing onset is closely associated with the peak velocity and peak amplitude of jaw and upper lip movements for VC syllables in adults. This robust coordination in the onset position may function to increase the salience of VC syllables and provide a phonetically natural explanation for vowels to undergo phonological lengthening and to avoid phonological reduction in word-initial onset position.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Original Paper
- The Role of the Spectral and Temporal Cues in Consonantal Vocalization and Glide Insertion
- Relational Timing in the Production and Perception of Japanese Singleton and Geminate Stops
- Coordinating Voicing Onset with Articulation: A Potential Role for Sensory Cues in Shaping Phonological Distinctions
- Pitch Range Variation in English Tonal Contrasts: Continuous or Categorical?
- Linguistic and Human Effects on F₀ in a Tonal Dialect of Qiang
- The Transmission of Meaning by Prosodic Phrasing
- Further Section
- Publications Received for Review
