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An Articulatory and Acoustic Study of the Fricative Clusters /sʃ/ and /ʃs/ in Catalan

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Published/Copyright: February 7, 2014
Phonetica
From the journal Phonetica Volume 70 Issue 4

Abstract

Elect ropalatographic and acoustic data for the fricative clusters /sʃ/ and /ʃs/ and the single fricatives /s/ and /ʃ/ in Eastern Catalan reveal that, while /sʃ/ undergoes regressive assimilation, /ʃs/ blends into an intermediate fricative or exhibits a twotarget realization. On the other hand, acoustic data for /ʃs/ in Western Catalan show that /s/ may assimilate to preceding /ʃ/ or undergo blending or a two-target realization depending on speaker and prosodic condition (no data are available for /sʃ/ in this dialect). Duration values for the two fricative clusters suggest that the assimilated outcome of /sʃ/ shortens down to the length of /ʃ/. A production-based account of the two sequences /sʃ/ and /ʃs/ in Catalan and other languages is proposed.

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*Departament de Filologia Catalana, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, ES-08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona (Spain), E-Mail daniel.recasens@uab.es
Received: 2013-07-08
Accepted: 2013-10-23
Published Online: 2014-02-07
Published in Print: 2014-02-01

© 2014 S. Karger AG, Basel

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https://doi.org/10.1159/000356628

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  1. Further Section
  2. Contents Vol. 70, 2013
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  4. Front & Back Matter
  5. Publisher's Note
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  7. Editorial
  8. Farewell
  9. Original Paper
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