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Article Dans Une Revue Laboratory Phonology : Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology Année : 2022

Linking gestural representaitons to syllable count judgments: A cross-language test

Anisia Popescu
Ioana Chitoran
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A special class of English words with tense vowel/diphthong nuclei and liquid codas receive variable syllable count judgments (one and over-one syllables). Tilsen and Cohn (2016) showed that differences in judgments correlate with differences in production, supporting their hypothesis that meta-phonological judgments and speech motor control share a common representation. In the present study, we further propose that syllable count judgments are related to subsegmental representation in the rime, and are independent of acoustic duration. We test the hypothesis by comparing English and German, chosen for their similar word structures and vowel length contrast, and their crucial difference in the gestural specification of coda liquids. In English, coda liquids have an earlier vocalic gesture relative to the consonantal one, while in German, both gestures are simultaneous. We stipulated that sesquisyllabic (over-one) judgments are related to the count of sequentially-timed vocalic gestures in the rime. The difference in the coda liquid composition between the two languages predicts that sesquisyllables should not emerge in German. Our predictions were confirmed by the results of parallel production (acoustic) and syllable count judgment experiments in English and German. We propose a model accounting for these results, and we discuss its typological implications and its limitations.

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hal-04453083 , version 1 (12-02-2024)

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Anisia Popescu, Ioana Chitoran. Linking gestural representaitons to syllable count judgments: A cross-language test. Laboratory Phonology : Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, 2022, 13 (1). ⟨hal-04453083⟩
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