Acoustics of word-final S

Plag, Ingo; Homann, Julia; Kunter, Gero

Acoustics of word-final S

dc.contributor.author	Plag, Ingo
dc.contributor.author	Homann, Julia
dc.contributor.author	Kunter, Gero
dc.date.accessioned	2019-03-19T14:09:51Z
dc.date.available	2019-03-19T14:09:51Z
dc.date.issued	2019-03-19
dc.description.abstract	Recent research has shown that homophonous lexemes show systematic phonetic differences (e.g. Gahl 2008, Drager 2011), with important consequences for models of speech production such as Levelt et al. (1999). These findings also pose the question of whether similar differences hold for allegedly homophonous affixes (instead of free lexemes). Earlier experimental research found some evidence that morphemic and nonmorphemic sounds may differ acoustically (Walsh & Parker 1983, Losiewicz 1992). This paper investigates this question by analyzing the phonetic realization of non-morphemic /s/ and /z/, and of six different English /s/ and /z/ morphemes (plural, genitive, genitive-plural and 3rd person singular, as well as cliticized forms of has and is). The analysis is based on more than 600 tokens extracted from conversational speech (Buckeye Corpus, Pitt et al. 2007). Two important results emerge. First, there are significant differences in acoustic duration between some morphemic /s/’s and /z/’s and non-morphemic /s/ and /z/, respectively. Second, there are significant differences in duration between some of the morphemes. These findings challenge standard assumptions in morphological theory, lexical phonology and models of speech production.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	Strategischer Forschungsfonds der Heinrich- Heine-Universität Düsseldorf	en
dc.identifier.uri	https://researchdata.hhu.de/handle/entry/59
dc.identifier.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.25838/d5p-3
dc.language.iso	en_US	en
dc.publisher	Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf	en
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/	*
dc.subject	morphology	en
dc.subject	phonetics	en
dc.subject	linguistics
dc.subject	English
dc.title	Acoustics of word-final S	en
dc.type	Other	en