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Acoustic analysis of syllable-final /k/ in Northern Peninsular Spanish

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Abstract

One of the realizations of coda /k/ in Northern and Central Spain is the interdental voiceless fricative [θ]. Although this variant has been investigated from a sociolinguistic and phonological point of view, acoustic investigation is non-existent. This paper presents preliminary findings of an acoustic study focusing on clusters with syllable-final /k/ in speakers of the Basque Country in Northern Spain. Results from four female speakers show that, although interdental fricative realizations are attested, glottal fricatives and deletion are more pervasive. Significant effects are found for place and manner of articulation depending on the preceding vowel, following consonant, number of syllables in the word and word position of /k/. In particular, more frication is found before /t/ than before /s/, /θ/ or /n/, offering partial support for a phonological analysis based on manner dissimilation.

Abstract

One of the realizations of coda /k/ in Northern and Central Spain is the interdental voiceless fricative [θ]. Although this variant has been investigated from a sociolinguistic and phonological point of view, acoustic investigation is non-existent. This paper presents preliminary findings of an acoustic study focusing on clusters with syllable-final /k/ in speakers of the Basque Country in Northern Spain. Results from four female speakers show that, although interdental fricative realizations are attested, glottal fricatives and deletion are more pervasive. Significant effects are found for place and manner of articulation depending on the preceding vowel, following consonant, number of syllables in the word and word position of /k/. In particular, more frication is found before /t/ than before /s/, /θ/ or /n/, offering partial support for a phonological analysis based on manner dissimilation.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Foreword & acknowledgments vii
  4. Editors’ introduction ix
  5. Part I First and second language acquisition
  6. Devil or angel in the details? 3
  7. Effects of Spanish use on the production of Catalan vowels by early Spanish-Catalan bilinguals 33
  8. Cues to dialectal discrimination in early infancy 55
  9. Phonology versus phonetics in loanword adaptations 71
  10. Part II Prosody
  11. A preliminary study of penultimate accentuation in French 93
  12. Sentence modality and tempo in Neapolitan Italian 109
  13. Glottalization at phrase boundaries in Tuscan and Roman Italian 125
  14. Part III Segments
  15. Acoustic analysis of syllable-final /k/ in Northern Peninsular Spanish 151
  16. The phonetic basis of a phonological pattern 171
  17. The production of rhotics in onset clusters by Spanish monolinguals and Spanish-Basque bilinguals 193
  18. Part IV Methodology
  19. Secondary correlates of question signaling in Manchego Spanish 211
  20. Modeling prosody and rhythmic distributions in Spanish speech groups 239
  21. Categories and gradience in intonation 259
  22. Subject Index 285
The Phonetics–Phonology Interface
This chapter is in the book The Phonetics–Phonology Interface
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.335.08bar

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Foreword & acknowledgments vii
  4. Editors’ introduction ix
  5. Part I First and second language acquisition
  6. Devil or angel in the details? 3
  7. Effects of Spanish use on the production of Catalan vowels by early Spanish-Catalan bilinguals 33
  8. Cues to dialectal discrimination in early infancy 55
  9. Phonology versus phonetics in loanword adaptations 71
  10. Part II Prosody
  11. A preliminary study of penultimate accentuation in French 93
  12. Sentence modality and tempo in Neapolitan Italian 109
  13. Glottalization at phrase boundaries in Tuscan and Roman Italian 125
  14. Part III Segments
  15. Acoustic analysis of syllable-final /k/ in Northern Peninsular Spanish 151
  16. The phonetic basis of a phonological pattern 171
  17. The production of rhotics in onset clusters by Spanish monolinguals and Spanish-Basque bilinguals 193
  18. Part IV Methodology
  19. Secondary correlates of question signaling in Manchego Spanish 211
  20. Modeling prosody and rhythmic distributions in Spanish speech groups 239
  21. Categories and gradience in intonation 259
  22. Subject Index 285
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