Abstract
Lexical neighbors (words sharing phonological structure with a target word) have been shown to influence the expression of phonetic contrasts for vowels and initial voiceless consonants. Focusing on minimal pair neighbors (e.g., bud - but), this research extends this work by examining the production of voiced as well as voiceless stops in both initial and final syllable/word position. The results show minimal pair neighbors can result both in enhancement and reduction of voicing contrasts (in initial vs final position), and differentially affect voiced vs voiceless consonants. These diverse effects of minimal pair neighbors serve to constrain interactive theories of language processing.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | EL172-EL177 |
| Journal | journal of the Acoustical Society of America |
| Volume | 134 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| State | Published - Aug 2013 |
Funding
This research was supported by a National Science Foundation Grant No. BCS0846147 to M.G. and a Northwestern Undergraduate Research Grant to A.M. The authors thank Angela Fink, Michael Frazier, and Kelly Kahle for assistance with acoustic analyses and the Northwestern SoundLab for helpful comments. 1
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
- Acoustics and Ultrasonics