Planting the seed for sound change : evidence from real-time mri of velum kinematics in German

Christopher Carignan; Stefano Coretta; Jens Frahm; Jonathan Harrington; Phil Hoole; Arun Joseph; Esther Kunay; Dirk Voit

doi:10.1353/lan.2021.0020

Planting the seed for sound change : evidence from real-time mri of velum kinematics in German

Christopher Carignan, Stefano Coretta, Jens Frahm, Jonathan Harrington, Phil Hoole, Arun Joseph, Esther Kunay, Dirk Voit

Western Sydney University

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Abstract

Velum movement signals generated from real-time magnetic resonance imaging videos of thirty-five German speakers were used to investigate the physiological conditions that might pro-mote sound change involving the development of contrastive vowel nasality. The results suggest that, in comparison to when a nasal consonant precedes a voiced obstruent, the velum gesture as-sociated with a nasal consonant preceding a voiceless obstruent undergoes gestural rescaling and temporal rephasing. This further suggests that the diachronic development of contrastive vowel nasality comprises two stages: the first stage involves gestural shortening and realignment, while the second stage involves a trading relationship between source and effect.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	333-364
Number of pages	32
Journal	Language
Volume	97
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1353/lan.2021.0020
Publication status	Published - 2021

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