Perceptual distinctness and long-distance laryngeal restrictions  

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Gallagher, Gillian

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Phonology (Full Text) vol. 27 no. 03 (Dec. 2010), page 435-480.
Fulltext: Gallagher_Gillian, p. 435-480.pdf (800.79KB)

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In this paper, I present an analysis of the typology of laryngeal co-occurrence restrictions based on contrast markedness. The key ingredient of the analysis, for which I provide experimental support, is that laryngeal co-occurrence phenomena reflect a preference for maximising the perceptual distinctness of contrasts between words (Flemming 1995, 2004). An AX discrimination task finds that the contrast between an ejective and a plain stop is less accurately perceived in the context of another ejective in the word than in the context of another plain stop in the word. Pairs of words like [k’ap’i] and [k’api], which contrast 2 vs. 1 ejectives, are less reliably distinguished than pairs of words like [kap’i] and [kapi], which contrast 1 vs. 0 ejectives. The unifying factor of all laryngeal co-occurrence patterns is the neutralisation of the contrast between words with one and two laryngeally marked segments, exactly the contrast that is shown to be relatively perceptually weak.

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