Incomplete neutralization and other sub-phonemic durational differences in production and perception: evidence from Dutch

Natasha Warner, Allard Jongman, Joan Sereno, Rachèl Kemps

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Samenvatting

Words which are expected to contain the same surface string of segments may, under identical prosodic circumstances, sometimes be realized with slight differences in duration. Some researchers have attributed such effects to differences in the words’ underlying forms (incomplete neutralization), while others have suggested orthographic influence and extremely careful speech as the cause. In this paper, we demonstrate such sub-phonemic durational differences in Dutch, a language which some past research has found not to have such effects. Past literature has also shown that listeners can often make use of incomplete neutralization to distinguish apparent homophones. We extend perceptual investigations of this topic, and show that listeners can perceive even durational differences which are not consistently observed in production. We further show that a difference which is primarily orthographic rather than underlying can also create such durational differences. We conclude that a wide variety of factors, in addition to underlying form, can induce speakers to produce slight durational differences which listeners can also use in perception.
Originele taal-2Engels
TijdschriftJournal of Phonetics
Volume32
Nummer van het tijdschrift2
DOI's
StatusGepubliceerd - 2004
Extern gepubliceerdJa

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