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Conference Paper: Gestural reduction of Hong Kong Cantonese syllable-final oral stops

TitleGestural reduction of Hong Kong Cantonese syllable-final oral stops
Authors
KeywordsProduction
Gestural reduction
Cantonese
Articulatory coordination
Ultrasound
Issue Date2015
PublisherUniversity of Glasgow. The Conference proceedings' website is located at https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/icphs-proceedings/ICPhS2015/proceedings.html
Citation
The 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2015), Glasglow, Scotland, UK., 10-14 August 2015. In Conference Proceedings, 2015, p. 0912.1-0912.5 How to Cite?
AbstractPrevious work on Cantonese unreleased syllable-final stops have shown that these sounds are cued primarily by their spectral transitions during the preceding vowel (Khouw & Ciocca, 2006). However, it remains unclear whether speakers have lost a place distinction between such sounds. This study investigates the articulation of syllable-final /t, k/ that precede consonants differing by place (labial, alveolar, velar), which could result in varying degrees of gestural reduction. Productions of disyllabic Cantonese words by five speakers were recorded using ultrasonic tongue imaging and analyzed for lingual contour and minimal lingual aperture. Results for all but one speaker show systematic patterns of reduction of the anterior or posterior constrictions for /t, k/ according to the place of the following consonant. Unexpectedly, the pre-labial contexts elicited the most gestural reduction and deletion/assimilation, despite the fact that this context should have permitted the greatest amount of simultaneity and coarticulation.
DescriptionSession - Speech Production and Articulation III: Syllabic and Prosodic Aspects
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/218649
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DC FieldValueLanguage
dc.contributor.authorYip, JC-
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-18T06:49:22Z-
dc.date.available2015-09-18T06:49:22Z-
dc.date.issued2015-
dc.identifier.citationThe 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2015), Glasglow, Scotland, UK., 10-14 August 2015. In Conference Proceedings, 2015, p. 0912.1-0912.5-
dc.identifier.isbn9780852619414-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/218649-
dc.descriptionSession - Speech Production and Articulation III: Syllabic and Prosodic Aspects-
dc.description.abstractPrevious work on Cantonese unreleased syllable-final stops have shown that these sounds are cued primarily by their spectral transitions during the preceding vowel (Khouw & Ciocca, 2006). However, it remains unclear whether speakers have lost a place distinction between such sounds. This study investigates the articulation of syllable-final /t, k/ that precede consonants differing by place (labial, alveolar, velar), which could result in varying degrees of gestural reduction. Productions of disyllabic Cantonese words by five speakers were recorded using ultrasonic tongue imaging and analyzed for lingual contour and minimal lingual aperture. Results for all but one speaker show systematic patterns of reduction of the anterior or posterior constrictions for /t, k/ according to the place of the following consonant. Unexpectedly, the pre-labial contexts elicited the most gestural reduction and deletion/assimilation, despite the fact that this context should have permitted the greatest amount of simultaneity and coarticulation.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherUniversity of Glasgow. The Conference proceedings' website is located at https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/icphs-proceedings/ICPhS2015/proceedings.html-
dc.relation.ispartof18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2015) Proceedings-
dc.subjectProduction-
dc.subjectGestural reduction-
dc.subjectCantonese-
dc.subjectArticulatory coordination-
dc.subjectUltrasound-
dc.titleGestural reduction of Hong Kong Cantonese syllable-final oral stops-
dc.typeConference_Paper-
dc.identifier.emailYip, JC: yipjonat@hku.hk-
dc.description.naturepostprint-
dc.identifier.hkuros251742-
dc.identifier.spage0912.1-
dc.identifier.epage0912.5-
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom-

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