
Abstract
Preaspiration, i.e. [hC], is a rare feature of stop production in the world’s languages that has been recently found to occur in Sienese Italian. We present a qualitative acoustic-phonetic description of voiceless geminate stops /p: t: k:/ with preaspiration that occurred in a corpus of spontaneous Sienese Italian speech (6 speakers). We outline the different fine-grained realizations of preaspiration and discuss the findings in the context of our general knowledge of the phenomenon across languages.
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Other) |
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Keywords: | preaspiration, geminate, voiceless stop, Italian |
Faculties: | Languages and Literatures > Department 2 > Speech Science |
Subjects: | 400 Language > 400 Language |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-14217-0 |
Place of Publication: | Saarbrücken |
Language: | English |
Item ID: | 14217 |
Date Deposited: | 13. Nov 2012, 14:13 |
Last Modified: | 04. Nov 2020, 12:54 |