dc.rights.license | Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license | |
dc.contributor.author | Lawson, Eleanor | |
dc.contributor.author | Stuart-Smith, Jane | |
dc.contributor.author | Scobbie, James M. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-29T15:53:34Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-06-29T15:53:34Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-03-26 | |
dc.identifier | ER5280 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Lawson, E., Stuart-Smith, J. & Scobbie, J. M. (2018) The role of gesture delay in coda /r/ weakening: An articulatory, auditory and acoustic study. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 143 (3), pp. 1646-1657. | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1520-8524 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.5027833 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/5280 | |
dc.description.abstract | The cross-linguistic tendency of coda consonants to weaken, vocalize, or be deleted is shown to have a phonetic basis, resulting from gesture reduction, or variation in gesture timing. This study investigates the effects of the timing of the anterior tongue gesture for coda /r/ on acoustics and perceived strength of rhoticity, making use of two sociolects of Central Scotland (working-class and middle-class) where coda /r/ is weakening and strengthening respectively. Previous articulatory analysis revealed a strong tendency for these sociolects to use different coda /r/ tongue configurations - working-class and middle-class speakers tend to use tip/front raised and bunched variants respectively; however, this finding does not explain working-class /r/ weakening. A correlational analysis in the current study showed a robust relationship between anterior lingual gesture timing, F3, and percept of rhoticity. A linear mixed effects regression analysis showed that both speaker social class and linguistic factors (word structure and the checked/unchecked status of the prerhotic vowel) had significant effects on tongue gesture timing and formant values. This study provides further evidence that gesture delay can be a phonetic mechanism for coda rhotic weakening and apparent loss, but social class emerges as the dominant factor driving lingual gesture timing variation. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | This work was supported by Economic and Social Research Council Grant Nos. RES-062-23-3246 and ES-N008189-1. | |
dc.description.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.5027833 | |
dc.format.extent | 1646-1657 | |
dc.publisher | Acoustical Society of America | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of the Acoustical Society of America | |
dc.rights | Copyright © 2018 The Authors | |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.title | The role of gesture delay in coda /r/ weakening: An articulatory, auditory and acoustic study | |
dc.type | article | |
dcterms.accessRights | public | |
dc.date.updated | 2019-01-28 | |
dc.description.faculty | casl | |
dc.description.volume | 143 | |
dc.description.ispublished | pub | |
dc.description.eprintid | 5280 | |
rioxxterms.type | article | |
rioxxterms.version | AM | |
rioxxterms.publicationdate | 2018-03-26 | |
refterms.dateAccepted | 2018-03-06 | |
refterms.dateFCA | 2018-04-02 | |
refterms.dateFCD | 2018-03-28 | |
qmu.author | Lawson, Eleanor | |
qmu.author | Scobbie, James M. | |
qmu.centre | CASL | |
qmu.centre | CASL | en |
dc.description.status | pub | |
dc.description.number | 3 | |
refterms.version | AM | |