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Catalan voiced prepalatals: Effects of nonphonetic factors on phonetic variation?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 December 2015

José I. Hualde ,
Christopher D. Eager  and
Marianna Nadeu
José I. Hualde
Affiliation:
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaignjihualde@illinois.edu
Christopher D. Eager
Affiliation:
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaigneager2@illinois.edu
Marianna Nadeu
Affiliation:
Penn Statenadeu@psu.edu
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Abstract

Central Catalan ‘prepalatal’ (postalveolar) consonants show a complex phonological distribution. Whereas in word-internal intervocalic position a four-way opposition obtains, involving a contrast in voice and a fricative/affricate distinction, elsewhere at least one of the two oppositions is neutralized. Position in word determines whether affrication and/or voicing is contrastive. We study the effect of this factor as well as other phonetic factors and style on the allophony of the voiced prepalatals in a large corpus of Central Catalan. The most significant conditioning factor turns out to be the preceding context, whereas position in word per se is not significant either for degree of constriction or for voicing. Thus, we do not find a direct effect of phonological contrastiveness on phonetic variation.

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Journal of the International Phonetic Association , Volume 45 , Issue 3 , December 2015 , pp. 243 - 267
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Copyright © International Phonetic Association 2015 

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