Title :

Ongoing phonologization of word-final voicing alternations in two Romance languages: Romanian and French

Author(s) :

Hutin, Mathilde [Auteur]
Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur [LIMSI]
Jatteau, Adèle [Auteur]
Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163 [STL]
Vasilescu, Ioana [Auteur]
Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur [LIMSI]
Lamel, Lori [Auteur]
Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur [LIMSI]
Adda-Decker, Martine [Auteur]
LPP - Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie - UMR 7018 [LPP]

Conference title :

Interspeech

City :

Shanghai (& virtuel)

Country :

France

Start date of the conference :

2020-10-25

Book title :

Proceeding of Interspeech

Journal title :

Proceedings of Interspeech 2020

Publication date :

2020

English keyword(s) :

devoicing
assimilation
French
Romanian
Large corpora
forced alignment
phonologization
lenition
fortition
voicing

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences cognitives/Linguistique
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Linguistique

English abstract : [en]

Phonologization is a process whereby phonetic substance becomes phonological structure [1]. The process involves at least two steps: (i) a universal phonetic ('automatic') variation becomes a language-specific ('speaker- ...
Show more >Phonologization is a process whereby phonetic substance becomes phonological structure [1]. The process involves at least two steps: (i) a universal phonetic ('automatic') variation becomes a language-specific ('speaker-controlled') pattern, (ii) the language-specific pattern becomes a phonological ('structured') object. This paper will focus on the first step and ask the question of whether three universal phonetic variations of the laryngeal feature of word-final codas (final devoicing, voicelessness assimilation and voicing assimilation) are becoming language-specific patterns in two Romance languages, Romanian and French. Our results suggest that neutralization processes (final devoicing) might be beginning their phonologization process in both French and Romanian whereas assimilation processes (regressive assimilation of voicing and voicelessness) remain universal phonetic tendencies.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

ANR Project :

Idex Paris-Saclay
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Collections :

• Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163

Source :

Harvested from HAL