Perceptual evidence of Modern Greek voiced stops as phonological categories

Mark Antoniou, Catherine T. Best, Michael D. Tyler

    Research output: Chapter in Book / Conference PaperConference Paper

    Abstract

    ![CDATA[The phonological status of voiced stops in Modern Greek (MG) remains unclear. Research shows that listeners typically discriminate native phonological contrasts without difficulty. We report MG listeners show excellent discrimination of MG bilabial [p]-[b] and coronal [t]-[d] stop voicing contrasts, significantly better than their discrimination of nonnative Australian English (AE) [ph]-[p] and [th]-[t]. We interpret the results as evidence for the phonological status of MG voiced stops /b, d/ and thus of MG stop voicing contrasts.]]
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationInterspeech 2008: Proceedings of the 9th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, incorporating SST 2008, held in Brisbane, Qld. 22-26 September, 2008
    PublisherCausal Productions
    Number of pages1
    Publication statusPublished - 2008
    EventInternational Speech Communication Association. Conference -
    Duration: 9 Sept 2012 → …

    Conference

    ConferenceInternational Speech Communication Association. Conference
    Period9/09/12 → …

    Keywords

    • Greek language, Modern
    • phonology
    • speech perception
    • stop voicing

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