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What French speakers' nasal vowels tell us about anticipatory nasal coarticulation

Rodriquez, Francesco; Pouplier, Marianne; Alderton, Roy; Lo, Justin JH; Evans, Bronwen G; Reinisch, Eva; Carignan, Christopher; (2023) What French speakers' nasal vowels tell us about anticipatory nasal coarticulation. In: Skarnitzl, Radek and Volín, Jan, (eds.) Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences – ICPhS 2023. (pp. pp. 848-852). International Phonetic Association: Prague, Czech Republic. Green open access

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Abstract

This paper examines the timing of anticipatory nasalization in French and relates it to individual speakers’ realizations of phonologically nasal vowels. We explore the possibility that coarticulation in VN sequences is more extensive for speakers who only differentiate nasal and oral vowels to a limited extent based on nasality. Nasal intensity was measured in a time window preceding a nasal consonant or oral control segment (VN/VC) as well as on speakers’ nasal and oral vowels (Ṽ/V). The results suggest that speakers for whom Ṽ and V differ less in nasality display earlier and more variable coarticulatory timing in VN sequences. Possibly, in speakers for whom nasality is less informative as a cue for the V/Ṽ contrast, anticipatory nasalization is less likely to mask said contrast and thus coarticulation can be more extensive and variable. The results contribute to our understanding of how speaker-specific manifestations of phonological contrast shape coarticulatory behavior.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: What French speakers' nasal vowels tell us about anticipatory nasal coarticulation
Event: 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
Location: Prague, Czechia
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/i...
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © Authors. This in an open access publication licenced by the authors of papers under the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en.
Keywords: Coarticulation; nasalization; speaker variability; contrast; French
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10201215
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