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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Main Authors: José María Lahoz-Bengoechea, Miguel Jiménez-Bravo
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Language:Catalan
Published: Universitat de Barcelona 2024-09-01
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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description 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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spelling doaj-art-a9ffc4fd86ee478d81785cea96510e8f2025-08-20T03:19:02ZcatUniversitat de BarcelonaEstudios de Fonética Experimental1575-55332385-35732024-09-013310.1344/efe-2024-33-153-168Ambisyllabic characteristics of Spanish resyllabification: Beyond durational cuesJosé María Lahoz-Bengoechea0Miguel Jiménez-Bravo1Universidad Complutense de MadridUniversidad Complutense de Madrid 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. https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/experimentalphonetics/article/view/47016Spanishresyllabificationacoustic cuesarticulatory gesturesambisyllabicity
spellingShingle José María Lahoz-Bengoechea
Miguel Jiménez-Bravo
Ambisyllabic characteristics of Spanish resyllabification: Beyond durational cues
Estudios de Fonética Experimental
Spanish
resyllabification
acoustic cues
articulatory gestures
ambisyllabicity
title Ambisyllabic characteristics of Spanish resyllabification: Beyond durational cues
title_full Ambisyllabic characteristics of Spanish resyllabification: Beyond durational cues
title_fullStr Ambisyllabic characteristics of Spanish resyllabification: Beyond durational cues
title_full_unstemmed Ambisyllabic characteristics of Spanish resyllabification: Beyond durational cues
title_short Ambisyllabic characteristics of Spanish resyllabification: Beyond durational cues
title_sort ambisyllabic characteristics of spanish resyllabification beyond durational cues
topic Spanish
resyllabification
acoustic cues
articulatory gestures
ambisyllabicity
url https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/experimentalphonetics/article/view/47016
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