On the Position of /s/ in Slovak Consonant Clusters: an Acoustic and Perceptual Analysis
Abstract
The paper presents the results of research aimed at the acoustic and perceptual analysis of onset and coda clusters from standard Slovak that violate the principle of sonority. The research is based on Engstrand and Ericsdotter’s (1999) claim that clusters violating sonority are perceptually advantageous over those that follow the sonority principle. The analysis was carried out on a sample of test nonsense words with the initial combinations /sp, st, sk/ and final combinations /ps, ts, ks/. The data were produced and evaluated by native Slovak language speakers. The results of the research support the assumption about the perceptual advantage of clusters that are not in accordance with sonority.
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Jespersen, O. (1904). Phonetische grundfragen. Teubner.
Jones, D. (1969). An outline of English phonetics. Cambridge University Press.
Kuryłowicz, J. (1948). Contribution à la thèorie de la syllable. Biuletyn Polskiego towarzystwa językoznawczego, 8, 80-114.
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Ondruš, Š., & Sabol, J. (1987). Úvod do štúdia jazykov. Slovenské pedagogické nakladateľstvo.
Parker, S. (2012). Sonority distance vs. sonority dispersion – a typological survey. In S. Parker (ed.), The sonority controversy, 101-166. Walter de Gruyter.
Parker, S. (2018). Sonority. Oxford Bibliographies Online. https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO /9780199772810-0042
Pawelec, P. (2012). The sonority sequencing generalization and the structure of consonant clusters with trapped sonorants in Polish. Anglica Wratisaviensia, 50, 183-195.
Sabol, J., & Ivančová, L. (2014). Slabičné rozhrania v modeloch trojčlenných konsonantických skupín v slovenčine. Jazykovedný časopis, 65(2), 105-121.
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2023-05-08
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GREGOVÁ, Renáta; KIKTOVA, Eva.
On the Position of /s/ in Slovak Consonant Clusters: an Acoustic and Perceptual Analysis.
e-Journal of Linguistics, [S.l.], v. 17, n. 2, p. 241--252, may 2023.
ISSN 2442-7586.
Available at: <https://ojs.unud.ac.id/index.php/eol/article/view/100628>. Date accessed: 16 may 2024.
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