Perceptual effects of assimilation-induced violation of final devoicing in Dutch

Willemina A. van Donselaar; Anne Cutler

Perceptual effects of assimilation-induced violation of final devoicing in Dutch

Willemina A. van Donselaar, Anne Cutler

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Abstract

Voice assimilation in Dutch is an optional phonological rule which changes the surface forms of words and in doing so may 'violate the otherwise obligatory phonological rule of syllable-final devoicing. We report two experiments examining the influence of voice assimilation on phoneme processing in lexical compound words and in noun-verb phrases. Processing was not irnpaired in appropriate assimilation contexts across rnorpheme boundaries, but was impaired when devoicing was violated (a) in an inappropriate (non-assimlilatory) context, or (b) across a syntactic boundary.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ICSLP '02 : Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, held in Denver, Colorado, USA, 16-20 September, 2002
Publisher	Causal Productions
Number of pages	4
Publication status	Published - 2002
Event	International Conference on Spoken Language Processing - Duration: 1 Jan 2006 → …

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Conference	International Conference on Spoken Language Processing
Period	1/01/06 → …

Keywords

voice
lexical phonology
tone (phonetics)
speech processing
Dutch language

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Perceptual effects of assimilation-induced violation of final devoicing in Dutch

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