The functionality of incomplete neutralization in Dutch: The case of past-tense formation
The functionality of incomplete neutralization in Dutch: The case of past-tense formation
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荷兰语中不完全中和的功能：过去时态形成的情况
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2006
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Harald Baayen
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M. Ernestus;Harald Baayen
在许多语言中，低沉的发音障碍在词尾位置(词尾清音)被理解为无声。先前的研究表明，潜在的[语音]规范的这种中和可能在语音上是不完整的，低声发音的障碍被实现为轻微发声。听者对不完全中和很敏感，因为他们可以在偶然性水平上区分出潜在地以浊音和清音结尾的单词的语音实现。这项研究讨论了不完全中和在多大程度上起作用。它报告了一系列实验，表明在荷兰语中，仅通过单词的拼写方式就可以诱导不完全中和，并且不需要最小的单词对就可以出现不完全中和。此外，这些实验还表明，荷兰听众利用不完全中和，即使没有特定于任务的原因，他们也会这样做。不完全中和似乎是过去时形成的亚音素线索，并且在语言处理中的作用比迄今所认为的更重要。最后，我们的数据表明，荷兰听者和说话者动态地调整他们对声音信号的产生和解释，以适应先前在实验中遇到的正字法和声学形式的发声特性。
In many languages, underlyingly voiced obstruents are realized as voiceless in word-final position (Final Devoicing). Previous research has shown that this neutralization of the underlying [voice]-specification may be phonetically incomplete, with underlyingly voiced obstruents being realized as slightly voiced. Listeners are sensitive to incomplete neutralization, since they can tell apart above chance level the phonetic realizations of words underlyingly ending in voiced and voiceless obstruents. This study discusses to what extent incomplete neutralization is functional. It reports a series of experiments showing that incomplete neutralization can be induced in Dutch just by the way words are spelled, and that no minimal word pairs are required for incomplete neutralization to emerge. In addition, these experiments also show that Dutch listeners take advantage of incomplete neutralization, even when there are no task-specific reasons for them to do so. Incomplete neutralization appears to be a subphonemic cue to past-tense formation, and has a more substantial role in language processing than has been assumed thus far. Finally, our data show that Dutch listeners and speakers dynamically adapt their production and interpretation of the acoustic signal to the voicing properties of the orthographic and acoustic forms encountered previously in the experiment.