Pharyngealization and Labialization in Tashlhiyt: Articulation and acoustics

titlePharyngealization and Labialization in Tashlhiyt: Articulation and acoustics
start_date2023/10/20
schedule14h-15h30
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location_infoSalle Rousselot
summarySecondary articulations occur in the phoneme inventories of approximately a quarter of the world’s languages (Buech et al., 2022). In terms of articulation, secondary articulations are produced by a gesture of a lesser degree in addition to a primary gesture (Trask, 1996). Acoustically, secondary articulations are signaled in the formant structure of adjacent vowels rather than on the consonants themselves (Maddieson & Ladefoged, 1996). Tashlhiyt is an Amazigh language that belongs to rare languages that have two secondary articulations in their phonological system. These are pharyngealization and labialization, a co-occurrence that is present in only 0.3% of the world’s languages. In general, pharyngealization is well-investigated especially on data from Arabic varieties, while labialization belongs to the under-investigated phenomena. In Tashlhiyt, pharyngealization is a feature of coronals (e.g., [izi] ‘fly’ vs [izˤi] ‘bile’), while labialization is present in the set of dorsals (e.g., [ngi] ‘flow!’ vs [ngʷi] ‘delouse!’). Another peculiarity of Tashlhiyt is its strong use of consonant sequences. Since information on secondary articulations is mainly on adjacent vowels, the question arises as to how pharyngealization and labialization are realized if the positions adjacent to the consonantal targets are partly or entirely occupied by other consonants. This talk addresses this question and presents articulatory and acoustic data of pharyngealization and labialization and their realization in different contexts: V_V, VC_V, V_CV, and VC_CV.
responsiblesFougeron, Ridouane

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Buech
Event #722197 - created on 2023/09/21