Assessing the representation of phonological rules by a production study of non-words in Coratino

Autor: Jean-Luc Schwartz, Mirko Grimaldi, Paolo Lorusso, Silvain Gerber, Jonathan Bucci
Přispěvatelé: BCL, équipe Dialectologie et Linguistique formelle, Bases, Corpus, Langage (UMR 7320 - UCA / CNRS) (BCL), Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (... - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA), Centro di Ricerca Interdisciplinare sul Linguaggio (CRIL), Università degli studi di Lecce, GIPSA-Services (GIPSA-Services), Grenoble Images Parole Signal Automatique (GIPSA-lab ), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Centro de Ricerca Interdisciplinare sul Linguagio (CRIL), Università del Salento [Lecce], GIPSA - Perception, Contrôle, Multimodalité et Dynamiques de la parole (GIPSA-PCMD), Département Parole et Cognition (GIPSA-DPC), Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP )-Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])-Grenoble Images Parole Signal Automatique (GIPSA-lab ), This work was supported by the European Research Council under the 7th European Community Program (FP7/2007–2013 Grant Agreement No. 339152 – 'Speech Unit(e)s')., European Project: 339152,EC:FP7:ERC,ERC-2013-ADG,SPEECH UNIT(E)S(2014), Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS), COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA), Bucci, Jonathan, Lorusso, Paolo, Gerber, Silvain, Grimaldi, Milko Antonino, Schwartz, Jean-Luc
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
Fonologia
Male
Consonant
050101 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language
Speech production
internal grammar
Acoustics and Ultrasonics
speech production
Non-words
Vowel reduction
Corpus
Language and Linguistics
Production experiment
030507 speech-language pathology & audiology
03 medical and health sciences
Italian dialect
[SCCO]Cognitive science
cognitive representations
Phonetics
Humans
Speech
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Phonological rules
phonetics
dialect variation
Language
Mathematics
Dialects
rules
05 social sciences
Phonology
Langage - Vowel reduction
Dialetti
Distinctive feature
[SCCO.LING]Cognitive science/Linguistics
Linguistics
Laboratoire BCL: Bases
phonology
Esperimento di produzione
Riduzione vocalica
vowel reduction
Italy
Phonological rule
Mid vowel
Female
nonwords
0305 other medical science
Articulation (phonetics)
non-words
Zdroj: Phonetica
Phonetica, Karger, 2019, ⟨10.1159/000504452⟩
Phonetica, 2019, ⟨10.1159/000504452⟩
ISSN: 0031-8388
1423-0321
DOI: 10.1159/000504452⟩
Popis: Phonological regularities in a given language can be described as a set of formal rules applied on logical expressions (e.g. the value of a distinctive feature) or rather as distributional properties emerging from the phonetic substance. An indirect way to assess how phonology is represented in a speaker’s brain consists in testing how phonological regularities are transferred to non-words. This is this objective of this study, focusing on Coratino, a dialect from southern Italy spoken in the Apulia region. In Coratino, a complex process of vowel reduction operates, characterized by four major properties: (1) /i e ɛ u o ɔ/ are reduced in unstressed position while /a/ is maintained; (2) all initial vowels are maintained, even unstressed; (3) unstressed vowels /i e ɛ u o ɔ/ are protected against reduction when they are adjacent to a consonant that shares articulation (labiality and velarity for /u o ɔ/ and palatality for /i e ɛ/); (4) when they are reduced, high vowels are reduced to /ɨ/ and mid vowels to /ə/. A production experiment was carried out on 19 speakers of Coratino to test whether these properties were displayed with non-words. The production data display a complex pattern, in which each of the four properties do transfer to non-words, though in a different way, which seems to imply both either explicit/formal rules (for maintenance in initial position and the reduction to two targets) and distributional properties transferred in a statistical way to non-words (for consonantal protection and robustness of /a/). Furthermore, the speakers appear as largely variable in this task. Altogether, this suggests that both formal rules and distributional principles participate to the encoding of Coratino phonology in the speakers’ brain.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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