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Articulatory Strengthening in Initial German /kl/ clusters under Prosodic Variation

Bombien, Lasse and Mooshammer, Christine and Hoole, Phil and Rathcke, Tamara and Kühnert, Barbara (2007) Articulatory Strengthening in Initial German /kl/ clusters under Prosodic Variation. In: Proceedings ICPhS XVI : 6-10 August 2007, Saarbrücken Germany ; 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany, pp. 457-460. ISBN 978-3-9811535-1-4. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:48082)

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Abstract

This study investigates the effects of varying prosodic boundary strength and lexical stress on domain initial /kl/ clusters in German by means of Electropalatography (EPG). Recordings of 7 subjects were analyzed using temporal and spatial parameters derived from the EPG data. Temporal and spatial parameters show that boundary effects are stronger for the first consonant while in the temporal domain stress affects the second consonant rather than the first. Overlap was found to be greater in unstressed position and at lower prosodic boundaries. Furthermore, /kl/ appears to be more susceptible to stress effects when not preceded by a boundary.

Item Type: Book section
Subjects: P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Culture and Languages
Depositing User: Tamara Rathcke
Date Deposited: 28 Apr 2015 10:08 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:19 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/48082 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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