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T1 A Study of the Assimilative Behavior of the Voiced Labio-Dental Fricative in American English
A1 Mena González, Silvia
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
K1 Assimilation
K1 Phonological processes
K1 5701.11 Enseñanza de Lenguas
AB Gradation is one of the main features of colloquial speech. It implies the presence of certain phonological processes that ease the transition between phonemes with different articulatory features. For English, one of these implied processes is assimilation, which is when the articulation of a segment is modified into another one already existing in the system. Our study takes Gimson (1994)’s suggestion that /v/ assimilates into /m/ when it is followed by the bilabial nasal. After observing and describing different cases of assimilation, we suggest more possible explanations to this phenomenon and more assimilative behaviors of /v/. Therefore, we conduct an experiment with six American- English L1s where they evaluate sentences whose articulation includes our suggested proposals. The results show Gimson’s theory not to be as accurate as expected. Furthermore, we prove that /v/ can assimilate into /b/, /ɂ/ and /d/ when it is followed by bilabial, velar and alveolar phonemes.
YR 2019
FD 2019
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/39508
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/39508
LA eng
DS UVaDOC
RD 24-nov-2024