Comparative Study of Estonian Swedish Voiceless Laterals: Are Voiceless Approximants Fricatives?
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Summary, in English
Estonian Swedish. All three have a voiceless lateral functioning in contrast to a voiced lateral approximant. The analysis focused on duration – including any period of voicing (‘pre-voicing’) just
before the release of the lateral – and the intensity of the voiceless lateral relative to the following vowel. Welsh showed no pre-voicing in the lateral, whilst Icelandic and Estonian Swedish did, though
the latter less consistently. The Welsh voiceless lateral was also greater in relative intensity. This could be taken as a difference of phonetic category between a fricative [ɬ] in Welsh as against a
voiceless approximant [l̥ ] in the other two languages, but we argue that the complexity of the data from Estonian Swedish excludes a categorical interpretation.
Publishing year
2015
Language
English
Publication/Series
Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
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Conference paper
Publisher
University of Glasgow
Topic
- General Language Studies and Linguistics
Keywords
- Estonian Swedish
- pre-voicing
- phonetic categories
- lateral fricative
- voiceless lateral
Conference name
the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVIII)
Conference date
2015-08-10 - 2015-08-14
Conference place
Glasgow, United Kingdom
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Published
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- ISSN: 2412-0669
- ISBN: 978-0-85261-941-4