Tongue body position differences in the coronal stop consonants of Wubuy

Christian Kroos; Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen; Louis Goldstein; Catherine Best

Tongue body position differences in the coronal stop consonants of Wubuy

Christian Kroos, Rikke Bundgaard-Nielsen, Louis Goldstein, Catherine Best

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We investigated the role of the posterior tongue body in the articulation of the four-way coronal stop consonant series of the Australian language Wubuy. Significant tongue body posture differences between the dental, alveolar, retroflex and alveopalatal stops were found. Further analysis revealed that the differences along the anterior-posterior axis were of the same magnitude as the difference between context vowel tongue back position and consonant midpoint position. Vowel tongue back position in the anterior-posterior dimension was predicted with a higher than expected accuracy by the consonant midpoint position, indicating a strong impact of the consonant on the vowel in Wubuy.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 14-16 December 2010, Melbourne, Australia
Publisher	ASSTA
Pages	86-89
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	9780958194631
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology - Duration: 3 Dec 2012 → …

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Conference	Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
Period	3/12/12 → …

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Nunggubuyu language
coronals (phonetics)

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Kroos, C, Bundgaard-Nielsen, R, Goldstein, L & Best, C 2010, Tongue body position differences in the coronal stop consonants of Wubuy. in Proceedings of the 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 14-16 December 2010, Melbourne, Australia. ASSTA, pp. 86-89, Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 3/12/12.

Tongue body position differences in the coronal stop consonants of Wubuy. / Kroos, Christian; Bundgaard-Nielsen, Rikke; Goldstein, Louis et al.
Proceedings of the 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, 14-16 December 2010, Melbourne, Australia. ASSTA, 2010. p. 86-89.

Research output: Chapter in Book / Conference Paper › Conference Paper

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