عنوان

Phonetics and Phonology of 'Voiced-Aspirated' Stops:

شماره

TLpq2314270376

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Phonetics and Phonology of 'Voiced-Aspirated' Stops:

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Islam, Md. Jahurul

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

Evidence from Production, Perception, Alternation and Learnability

نام ساير پديدآوران

Zsiga, Elizabeth C.

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Georgetown University

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2019

نام خاص و کميت اثر

296

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

Georgetown University

امتياز متن

2019

متن يادداشت

There has been a long-standing debate regarding the featural representation of 'voiced-aspirated' stops. Traditional models, including Laryngeal Realism (Honeybone, 2005; Iverson & Salmons, 1995; Beckman et al., 2013), assume that 'voiced-aspirates' are represented with a combination of two separate features: [voice] and [SG]. Other proposals (Ladefoged, 1971; Schiefer, 1989), however, contradict the traditional ones, arguing that 'voiced-aspirated' stops involve a completely different phonation type, presumably represented with a [breathy] feature. While earlier studies relied primarily on articulatory data, this dissertation sought to investigate the question of featural representations of 'voiced-aspirated' stops with data of several types: speech production, perception, phonological patterning (alternation/neutralization), and learnability of features via artificial language learning experiments. Data were obtained from native speakers of (Bangladeshi) Bangla except for two learnability experiments which were completed by native speakers of Russian and Spanish. Four separate groups of experiments were conducted to collect the four types of evidence. The first group of experiments examined the acoustic properties of the stop sounds to see whether the predictions of the traditional proposals generalize to Bangla four-way stops. The second group looked into the importance of prevoicing, breathy-voicing, and plain aspiration in the perception of 'voiced-aspirates' by Bangla speakers. The third one investigated the issue of word-final neutralization, which has been used as an argument for a [SG] feature in 'voiced-aspirates' (Lombardi, 1991). The final set of experiments consisted of six artificial language learning experiments organized into two groups: the first four experiments investigated whether Bangla speakers can associate a [voice] or [SG] feature independently with 'voiced-aspirates,' while the last two experiments, completed by Russian and Spanish speakers, investigated whether it is possible to learn two typologically unattested 'asymmetric' stop inventory types: /T,Th,Dh/ and /T,D,Dh/. Results from the experiments revealed that Bangla speakers associate a breathy-voicing gesture/cue, not plain aspiration, with 'voiced-aspirated' stops. Therefore, this dissertation concludes that the traditional proposal of [voice, SG] is not a true featural representation of 'voiced-aspirates,' and that the term 'breathy-voiced' stop is the correct descriptor of this stop category. It is necessary to represent this category with a [breathy] feature even though it sacrifices some featural economy.

موضوع مستند نشده

Linguistics

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Islam, Md. Jahurul

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Zsiga, Elizabeth C.

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y