| 'Fortis/lenis' revisited one more time: the aerodynamics of some oral stop contrasts in three continents. | |
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PMID: 15573490 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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The terms fortis and lenis are variously regarded as having one single underlying phonetic correlate or many. An exploratory analysis of acoustic and aerodynamic data on contrasting stop series in a number of European and non-European languages confirms that a significant variation in peak intra-oral pressure and in articulatory stricture duration are two of the main factors differentiating these series. Two central questions are: (1) Is the contrast in peak pressure controlled by lung volume decrement or by the degree of glottal aperture? (2) Is the gesture for the lenis sound a truncated or a re-scaled version of the gesture for the fortis sound? A more detailed examination of the data from the non-European languages suggests that glottal aperture, rather than respiratory effort is the main physiological parameter underlying the pressure variation, and that each member of the opposition has a specific target peak pressure, rather than the lenis peak pressure being truncated by the early release of the articulatory closure. |
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Authors:
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Andrew Butcher |
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Type: Journal Article |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Clinical linguistics & phonetics Volume: 18 ISSN: 0269-9206 ISO Abbreviation: Clin Linguist Phon Publication Date: 2004 Sep-Dec |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2004-12-02 Completed Date: 2005-04-01 Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8802622 Medline TA: Clin Linguist Phon Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 547-57 Citation Subset: IM |
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Human Communication Research Group, Flinders Institute for Health and Medical Research, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. andy.butcher@flinders.edu.au |
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Humans Language Phonation / physiology* Phonetics* Pulmonary Ventilation Speech / physiology* Speech Production Measurement Time Factors Voice / physiology |
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