Phonetic factors influencing /l/-rhoticisation in Greek
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2010/03/0030/000150Keywords:
laterals, rhotics, perception, sound changeAbstract
This study investigates phonetic factors – vocalic/consonantal context, duration, stress - favouring rhotic perception of the lateral approximant in Greek. Nonsense words containing the lateral in different lengths in both intervocalic and internal coda position, alongside similar words containing a rhotic, were presented to Greek listeners for categorisation as /l/ or /r/. Results showed that laterals were perceived as rhotics if they matched the rhotic in duration. Rhotics, on the other hand, were only perceived as laterals if they were articulated as an approximant rather than as a tap.
References
Baltazani, M. 2005. Phonetic variability of the Greek rhotic sound. Poster presented at Phonetics and Phonology in Iberia, Barcelona, Spain, June 20-21, 2005.
Barry, W.J. 1997. Another R-tickle. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 27(1-2), 35-45.
Maddieson, I. 1980. A survey of liquids. UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, 50, 93-112.
Newton, B. 1972. The generative interpretation of dialect: A study of Modern Greek phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Proctor, M.I. 2009. Gestural characterization of a phonological class: The liquids. Doctoral dissertation, Yale University.
Quilis-Sanz, M.J. 1998. Las consonantes [-r] y [-l] implosivas en Andalucía. Revista de Filología Española, 78(1), 125-156.
Rohlfs, G. 1966. Grammatica storica della lingua italiana e dei suoi dialetti: Fonetica. Torino: Einaudi.
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2010 Daniela Müller (Author)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
