Ambisyllabic characteristics of Spanish resyllabification: Beyond durational cues
In Spanish coda segments are resyllabified as the onset of a following onsetless syllable across a word boundary. Thus, buscabas ocio (‘you were looking for entertainment’) has been traditionally syllabified in the same way as buscaba socio (‘s/he was looking for an associate’), and both are consid...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Catalan |
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Universitat de Barcelona
2024-09-01
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| Series: | Estudios de Fonética Experimental |
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| Online Access: | https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/experimentalphonetics/article/view/47016 |
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| Summary: | In Spanish coda segments are resyllabified as the onset of a following onsetless syllable across a word boundary. Thus, buscabas ocio (‘you were looking for entertainment’) has been traditionally syllabified in the same way as buscaba socio (‘s/he was looking for an associate’), and both are considered homophones. In this study nineteen speakers were recorded producing sentences that included such two-word minimal pairs, making up a total of 1424 utterances. The acoustic analyses performed on both prosodic structures, i.e. /V#CV/ vs. /V#CV/, provide measures of amplitude, spectral characteristics, and coarticulation for /s/, /n/, and /l/, as well as for their flanking vowels. Our results show differences for each condition and suggest an ambisyllabic nature of resyllabified consonants, which is interpreted within the framework of Articulatory Phonology.
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| ISSN: | 1575-5533 2385-3573 |