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Synchronic Fortition in Five Romance Languages? A Large Corpus-Based Study of Word-Initial Devoicing
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In: Proceedings of Interspeech ; Interspeech 2021 ; https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-03339852 ; Interspeech 2021, Aug 2021, Brno, Czech Republic. pp.996-1000, ⟨10.21437/Interspeech.2021-939⟩ (2021)
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International audience ; Devoicing is a process whereby a voiced consonant such as /bdg/ is realized as voiceless [ptk]. Some theorists [1,2] propose that this phenomenon is an instance of fortition, or consonant strengthening, especially when it occurs word-initially. This study proposes an in-depth exploration of voicing alternations in word-initial position in five Romance languages (Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, Romanian) using large corpora (ca. 1000h of speech) and automatic alignment. Our results show that (i) there is initial devoicing in all languages, and (ii) this devoicing is conditioned by the preceding context. This allows the languages to be divided into those displaying (a) only phrase-initial fortition (Spanish), (b) phrase-initial and post-obstruent fortition (French, Romanian and possibly Italian) and (c) generalized word-initial fortition (Portuguese).
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[SCCO.LING]Cognitive science/Linguistics; Automatic alignment; Big-data phonetics; Large corpora; Lenition and fortition; Phonology; Voicing and devoicing
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URL: https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2021-939
https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-03339852
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A corpus-based study of the distribution of word-final schwa in Standard French and what it teaches us about its phonological status
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Is word-final schwa in Standard French a “phonetic lubricant”? ; Le schwa final en français standard est-il un «lubrifiant phonétique»?
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In: Actes du 7e Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française ; 7e Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française - CMLF 2020 ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02931786 ; 7e Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française - CMLF 2020, Jul 2020, Montpellier, France. pp.id. 09004, ⟨10.1051/shsconf/20207809004⟩ ; https://www.linguistiquefrancaise.org/ (2020)
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Final devoicing of fricatives in French: Studying variation in large-scale corpora with automatic alignment
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In: Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences ; 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02270089 ; 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 2019, Melbourne, Australia. pp.295-299 ; https://assta.org/proceedings/ICPhS2019/ (2019)
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