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Impact of prosodic position on vocalic space in German and French
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In: ICPhS 2011 ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00685088 ; ICPhS 2011, 2011, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China. pp.731-734 (2011)
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F0 Declination in French: Broadcast News versus spontaneous speech.
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In: Proceedings of 2nd Nijmegen workshop in Production and Comprehension of Conversational Speech ; Nijmegen workshop in Production and Comprehension of Conversational Speech ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00762951 ; Nijmegen workshop in Production and Comprehension of Conversational Speech, Dec 2011, Netherlands. pp.15-17 (2011)
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Voice assimilation in French obstruents: A gradient or a categorical process?
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In: Tones and features: A festschrift for Nick Clements ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00684437 ; Tones and features: A festschrift for Nick Clements, De Gruyter, pp.149-175, 2011 (2011)
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This work contributes to the issue of categoricity versus gradiency in natural assimilations. We focused on voice-assimilation in French and started from the assumption that the main cue to obstruent voicing is glottal pulsing. We quantified glottal pulsing continuously with a single acoustic measure -- the proportion in duration of voiced portion(s) within a consonant -- which we call v-ratio. We used a large corpus of French radio and television speech to compute v-ratios for all the obstruents appearing in word-final to word-initial obstruent contacts. The results were analyzed in terms of v-ratio distributions, which were compared with theoretical distributions predicted by two contrasted hypotheses on the mechanisms of assimilation: categorical switch versus v-ratio shift. The comparisons strongly suggested that, although voicing itself can be incomplete, voice assimilation is essentially categorical in terms of v-ratio. We discuss this result in the light of recent perceptual data showing sensitivity to extremely subtle acoustic differences: secondary cues to voicing do not seem to follow the same pattern of categoricity as glottal pulsing.
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[SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics; categorical vs. gradient; French; primary cues; secondary cues; voice-assimilation; voicing-ratio
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URL: https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00684437
https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00684437/file/H-AD_Tones_Features-chapter.pdf
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