Phonological patterns and dependency relations may arise from aerodynamic factors
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Maria-Josep Solé
Abstract
This chapter examines how aerodynamic factors allow us to better understand phonological patterns and dependency relations among features that are difficult to explain by articulatory or acoustic factors alone. It is argued that local articulatory gestures (e.g., glottal opening) have consequences on the air pressure and flow at other sites of the vocal tract (e.g., supraglottal constriction). Thus, dependency relations can in part be explained in terms of the aerodynamic interaction among anatomically distant and independent articulators. Phonological patterns involving (i) consonant voicing - dependent on the action of supralaryngeal gestures on transglottal flow - (ii) the generation of audible frication, stop bursts or tongue-tip trilling at the oral constriction with variation in the aerodynamic conditions due to glottal action or nasal aperture, and (iii) dependency relations involving non-pulmonic sounds are examined. The implications of an aerodynamic approach for motor equivalence and theories of sound change are considered.
Abstract
This chapter examines how aerodynamic factors allow us to better understand phonological patterns and dependency relations among features that are difficult to explain by articulatory or acoustic factors alone. It is argued that local articulatory gestures (e.g., glottal opening) have consequences on the air pressure and flow at other sites of the vocal tract (e.g., supraglottal constriction). Thus, dependency relations can in part be explained in terms of the aerodynamic interaction among anatomically distant and independent articulators. Phonological patterns involving (i) consonant voicing - dependent on the action of supralaryngeal gestures on transglottal flow - (ii) the generation of audible frication, stop bursts or tongue-tip trilling at the oral constriction with variation in the aerodynamic conditions due to glottal action or nasal aperture, and (iii) dependency relations involving non-pulmonic sounds are examined. The implications of an aerodynamic approach for motor equivalence and theories of sound change are considered.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- On the nature of speech dynamics: approaches to studying synchronic variation and diachronic change 1
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Part 1: Empirical perspectives on diachronic change
- Fifty years of monophthong and diphthong shifts in Mainstream Australian English 17
- Coarticulation guides sound change: an acoustic-phonetic study of real-time change in word-initial /l/ over four decades of Glaswegian 49
- The impact of automated phonetic alignment and formant tracking workflows on sound change measurement 89
- One place, two speech communities: differing responses to sound change in Mainstream and Aboriginal Australian English in a small rural town 117
- Prosodic change in 100 years: the fall of the rise-fall in an Albanian variety 145
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Part 2: Factors conditioning synchronic variation
- Control of larynx height in vowel production revisited: a real-time MRI study 175
- Sheila’s roses (are in the paddick): reduced vowels in Australian English 207
- The future of the queen: how to pronounce “König✶innen” ‘gender-neutrally’ in German 245
- Synchronic variation and diachronic change: mora-counting and syllable-counting dialects in Japanese 273
- Reconstructing the timeline of a consonantal change in a German dialect: evidence from agent-based modeling 307
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Part 3: Theoretical approaches at the interface between synchronic variation and diachronic change
- On (mis)aligned innovative perception and production norms 343
- Phonological patterns and dependency relations may arise from aerodynamic factors 369
- Actuation without production bias 395
- Understanding the role of broadcast media in sound change 425
- Connecting prosody and duality of patterning in diachrony, typology, phylogeny, and ontogeny 453
- Index 483
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- On the nature of speech dynamics: approaches to studying synchronic variation and diachronic change 1
-
Part 1: Empirical perspectives on diachronic change
- Fifty years of monophthong and diphthong shifts in Mainstream Australian English 17
- Coarticulation guides sound change: an acoustic-phonetic study of real-time change in word-initial /l/ over four decades of Glaswegian 49
- The impact of automated phonetic alignment and formant tracking workflows on sound change measurement 89
- One place, two speech communities: differing responses to sound change in Mainstream and Aboriginal Australian English in a small rural town 117
- Prosodic change in 100 years: the fall of the rise-fall in an Albanian variety 145
-
Part 2: Factors conditioning synchronic variation
- Control of larynx height in vowel production revisited: a real-time MRI study 175
- Sheila’s roses (are in the paddick): reduced vowels in Australian English 207
- The future of the queen: how to pronounce “König✶innen” ‘gender-neutrally’ in German 245
- Synchronic variation and diachronic change: mora-counting and syllable-counting dialects in Japanese 273
- Reconstructing the timeline of a consonantal change in a German dialect: evidence from agent-based modeling 307
-
Part 3: Theoretical approaches at the interface between synchronic variation and diachronic change
- On (mis)aligned innovative perception and production norms 343
- Phonological patterns and dependency relations may arise from aerodynamic factors 369
- Actuation without production bias 395
- Understanding the role of broadcast media in sound change 425
- Connecting prosody and duality of patterning in diachrony, typology, phylogeny, and ontogeny 453
- Index 483
