Voice onset time and beyond: Exploring laryngeal contrast in 19 languages

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作者
Cho, Taehong [1 ]
Whalen, D. H. [2 ,3 ,4 ]
Docherty, Gerard [5 ]
机构
[1] Hanyang Univ, Dept English Language & Literature, Hanyang Inst Phonet & Cognit Sci Language HIPCS, 222 Wangsimni Ro, Seoul 04763, South Korea
[2] Haskins Labs Inc, 300 George St,Suite 900, New Haven, CT 06511 USA
[3] CUNY, Grad Ctr, Program Speech Language Hearing Sci, 365 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016 USA
[4] Yale Univ, Dept Linguist, POB 208366, New Haven, CT 06520 USA
[5] Griffith Univ, Arts Educ & Law Grp, 176 Messines Ridge Rd,Mt Gravatt Campus, Brisbane, Qld 4122, Australia
基金
新加坡国家研究基金会; 美国国家卫生研究院;
关键词
Voice Onset Time; Laryngeal Contrast; Universals and Variation; Multi-dimensional; Stops; VOT; ENGLISH; F0; STOPS; IMPLEMENTATION; NASALIZATION; COVARIATION; BREATHINESS; REALIZATION; MECHANISMS;
D O I
10.1016/j.wocn.2018.11.002
中图分类号
H0 [语言学];
学科分类号
030303 ; 0501 ; 050102 ;
摘要
In this special collection entitled Marking 50 Years of Research on Voice Onset Time and the Voicing Contrast in the World's Languages, we have compiled eleven studies investigating the voicing contrast in 19 languages. The collection provides extensive data obtained from 270 speakers across those languages, examining VOT and other acoustic, aerodynamic and articulatory measures. The languages studied may be divided into four groups: 'aspirating' languages with a two-way contrast (English, three varieties of German); 'true voicing' languages with a two-way contrast (Russian, Turkish, Brazilian Portuguese, two Iranian languages Pashto and Wakhi); languages with a three-way contrast (Thai, Vietnamese, Khmer, Yerevan Armenia, three Indo-Aryan languages, Dawoodi, Punjabi and Shina, and Burushaki); and Indo-Aryan languages with a more than three-way contrast (Jangli and Urdu with a four-way contrast, and Sindhi and Siraiki with a five-way contrast). We discuss the cross-linguistic data, focusing on how much VOT alone tells us about the voicing contrast in these languages, and what other phonetic dimensions (such as consonant-induced F0 and voice quality) are needed for a complete understanding of laryngeal contrast in these languages. Implications for various issues emerge: universal phonetic feature systems, effects of language contact on linguistic levelling, and the relation between laryngeal contrast and supralaryngeal articulation. The cross-linguistic VOT data also lead us to discuss how the distribution of VOT as measured acoustically may allow us to infer the underlying articulation and how it might be approached in gestural phonologies. The discussion on these multiple issues sparks new questions to be resolved, and provide indications of where the field may be best directed in exploring laryngeal contrast in voicing in the worlds languages. (C) 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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