Naslov
Ultrasound analysis of postalveolar and palatal affricates in Croatian: a case of neutralisation

Autori
Liker, Marko ; Vidović Zorić, Ana ; Zharkova, Natalia ; Gibbon, Fiona E.

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), ostalo

Izvornik
Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 / Calhoun, Sasha ; Escudero, Paola ; Tabain, Marija ; Warren, Paul - Canberra : Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc., 2019

ISBN
978-0-646-80069-1

Skup
International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2019)

Mjesto i datum
Melbourne, Australija, 05.08.2019. - 09.08.2019

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
affricates ; neutralisation ; ultrasound tongue imaging (UTI) ; Croatian

Sažetak
The phonetic status of Croatian affricates /ʧ/ and /ʨ/ is uncertain. Traditionally, affricate /ʧ/ is classified as postalveolar and /ʨ/ as palatal, but there is no physiological data to support this classification. Several studies show that postalveolar and palatal affricates are being neutralised in modern Standard Croatian, but the evidence of the neutralisation process is limited. Motivated by the possible existence of a sound change and by the relative lack of articulatory data, our aim was to use ultrasound to investigate midsagittal tongue contours in Croatian affricates /ʧ/ and /ʨ/. Nine typically speaking Croatian participants were included in the study. The results did not support the traditional classification of the affricates, but they also did not support the claims about the complete neutralisation. The analysis showed that /ʨ/ had higher position of the tongue blade/dorsum and less variability when compared with /ʧ/. Speaker specific differences were found and discussed.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija, Interdisciplinarne humanističke znanosti

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