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Durational Evidence That Tokyo Japanese Vowel Devoicing Is Not Gradient Reduction

A central question in the Japanese high vowel devoicing literature concerns whether vowels are devoiced through a categorical process or via gradient reduction. Examining how vowel height and consonantal voicing condition phrase-internal CV duration in a corpus of spontaneous Tokyo Japanese, it was...

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Autores principales: Tanner, James, Sonderegger, Morgan, Torreira, Francisco
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6476939/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31040809
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00821
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description A central question in the Japanese high vowel devoicing literature concerns whether vowels are devoiced through a categorical process or via gradient reduction. Examining how vowel height and consonantal voicing condition phrase-internal CV duration in a corpus of spontaneous Tokyo Japanese, it was found that CVs containing high vowels are substantially shorter before voiceless consonants, whilst non-high vowels do not exhibit comparable shortening. This quantitative difference between CV durations suggests a controlled temporal compression of the CV, consistent with views that Japanese vowel devoicing is produced through a categorical process targeting high vowels preceding voiceless consonants, and supports previous observations made of elicited productions.
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spelling pubmed-64769392019-04-30 Durational Evidence That Tokyo Japanese Vowel Devoicing Is Not Gradient Reduction Tanner, James Sonderegger, Morgan Torreira, Francisco Front Psychol Psychology A central question in the Japanese high vowel devoicing literature concerns whether vowels are devoiced through a categorical process or via gradient reduction. Examining how vowel height and consonantal voicing condition phrase-internal CV duration in a corpus of spontaneous Tokyo Japanese, it was found that CVs containing high vowels are substantially shorter before voiceless consonants, whilst non-high vowels do not exhibit comparable shortening. This quantitative difference between CV durations suggests a controlled temporal compression of the CV, consistent with views that Japanese vowel devoicing is produced through a categorical process targeting high vowels preceding voiceless consonants, and supports previous observations made of elicited productions. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-04-16 /pmc/articles/PMC6476939/ /pubmed/31040809 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00821 Text en Copyright © 2019 Tanner, Sonderegger and Torreira. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Durational Evidence That Tokyo Japanese Vowel Devoicing Is Not Gradient Reduction
title Durational Evidence That Tokyo Japanese Vowel Devoicing Is Not Gradient Reduction
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title_fullStr Durational Evidence That Tokyo Japanese Vowel Devoicing Is Not Gradient Reduction
title_full_unstemmed Durational Evidence That Tokyo Japanese Vowel Devoicing Is Not Gradient Reduction
title_short Durational Evidence That Tokyo Japanese Vowel Devoicing Is Not Gradient Reduction
title_sort durational evidence that tokyo japanese vowel devoicing is not gradient reduction
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6476939/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31040809
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