Rhotic contrasts in Arabana

Michael Carne; Juqiang Chen; Ellison Luk; Sydney Strangways; Clara Stockigt; Robert Mailhammer; Mark Harvey

Rhotic contrasts in Arabana

Michael Carne, Juqiang Chen, Ellison Luk, Sydney Strangways, Clara Stockigt, Robert Mailhammer, Mark Harvey

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Abstract

Arabana has a three-way rhotic phoneme contrast: /r/ (alveolar trill) vs /É¾/ (alveolar tap) vs /É»/ (retroflex continuant). The rhotic contrasts are prosodically restricted in Arabana. The triple contrast only appears following the tonic vowel, which is the first vowel. In other onset positions /É»/ is contrastive, but there is no /r/ vs /É¾/ contrast. There is no contrast in coda positions. We undertook the first-ever production study of Arabana rhotics. Recorded audio materials were independently coded in PRAAT by two trained transcribers. We found the following allophony: /r/ [r, É¾, É¹]; /É¾/ [É¾, É¹], /É»/ [É»]. The /r/ vs /É¾/ contrast is thus negatively determined, /r/ permits [r] realizations, but /É¾/ does not. The commonest realization of both /r/ and /É¾/ is [É¹]. The phoneme in neutralized coda position is /r/. The high degree of overlap in realizations between /r/ and /É¾/ accords with reported perception difficulties.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS2019), 5-9 August 2019, Melbourne, Australia
Publisher	Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association
Pages	1278-1282
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Print)	9780646800691
Publication status	Published - 2019
Event	International Congress of Phonetic Sciences - Duration: 5 Aug 2019 → …

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Conference	International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
Period	5/08/19 → …

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Arabana language
phonetics

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