full-fledged pidgin


Exercise 5: Cue Trading In Speech Perception

Posted in lsa317, phonetics, speech perception by clunis on the July 24th, 2007

I’m posting this exercise out of order because the other two are in states of not-yet-quite-completion. Maybe when they’re done and posted I’ll figure out how to resort the main page.

A. Guinea pigging

toons --> twos

%twos 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
twos                     1 2 2 2 2 2
toons                   1 2 2 2 2 2 2

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rhinoglottophilia

Posted in phonetics, speech perception by clunis on the July 24th, 2007

this is just a reminder to myself to investigate more about this when I have time. How would a direct realist (or even a motor theorist) respond to a sound change where V becomes nasalized after a voiceless fricative (in the absence of any nasal consonant) due to rhinoglottophilia? Does L&M talk about any such changes?

Come to think of it, the development of tones from voiced/voiceless stops presents a very similar problem to these perception theories.