Cross-linguistic tendencies and durational contrasts in geminate consonants: an examination of Guinaang Bontok geminates
Cross-linguistic tendencies and durational contrasts in geminate consonants: an examination of Guinaang Bontok geminates
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双辅音的跨语言趋势和持续时间对比：Guinaang Bontok 双辅音的检查
DOI：
10.1017/s0025100306002520
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发表时间：
2006
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0.8
通讯作者：
L. A. Reid
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作者：
Katsura Aoyama;L. A. Reid
在Guinaang Bontok，有一个语音对比之间的单音节和双音节的所有辅音（/p t k？B d g m n l s w j/）（Reid 1963，1973; Thurgood 1997）。除了口语浊塞音双音之外，所有的语音双音都是语音上的长辅音（Reid 1963），允许主要基于鼻音，摩擦音，液体，滑音和无声塞音的语音持续时间的语音区分。在一项关于双音的跨语言研究（Thurgood 1993）中，有更多的语言被列为具有塞音和鼻音双音的例子，而不是滑动双音，并且有人认为，齿槽是跨语言的首选双音辅音发音位置。在这项研究中，有人假设，跨语言的不太常见的长度对比，如在滑音的长度对比，是语音不太清楚比更常见的，如短和长塞音和鼻音辅音之间的对比。类似地，有人假设，在跨语言的发音共同的地方（即肺泡）的对比是语音清晰比不太常见的对比（例如软腭）。为了检验这些假设，持续时间测量进行单辅音和双辅音在Guinaang邦托克。短滑音和长滑音的平均时长对比度小于塞音和鼻音。因此，这一假设得到部分支持。
In Guinaang Bontok, there is a phonological contrast between singletons and geminates in all consonants (/p t k ? b d g m n ŋ l s w j/) (Reid 1963, 1973; Thurgood 1997). All phonological geminates except for the oral voiced stop geminates are phonetically long consonants (Reid 1963), allowing a phonological distinction which is primarily based on phonetic duration for nasals, fricatives, liquids, glides and voiceless stops. In a cross-linguistic examination of geminates (Thurgood 1993), there were more languages listed as examples for having stop and nasal geminates than for glide geminates, and it was suggested that alveolar was the cross-linguistically preferred place of articulation for geminate consonants. In this study, it was hypothesized that the cross-linguistically less common length contrasts, such as the length contrasts in glides, were phonetically less clear than the more common ones, such as contrasts between short and long stop and nasal consonants. Similarly, it was hypothesized that contrasts in the cross-linguistically common place of articulation (i.e. alveolar) is phonetically clearer than less common contrasts (e.g. velar). In order to test these hypotheses, duration measurements were conducted on single and geminate consonants in Guinaang Bontok. The average durational contrast between short and long glides was smaller than the contrast in stop and nasal consonants. The hypothesis was therefore partially supported.