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Thus, preaspira:on and breathiness tend to be added up in dura:onal analyses [19], or we do not know if breathiness was measured as part of preaspira:on [1012], and they are dis:nguished only some:mes [1315], in which case differences in the segmental and social condi:oning are found. Main quesCon: should they be treated as two components of a single phenomenon? Hypothesis: they should if 1. they are subject to the same social condi:oning 2. if they both serve the same linguis:c func:on (e.g. enhance a contrast) 3. or the same linguis:c condi:oning. Introduction phonological factors: vowel height, backness, length phone:c variables: F1, F2 phonologically ambiguous factors: place & manner of ar:cula:on of the posttonic plosive; type of the pretonic consonant On the whole, there are more similari:es than differences in the plosive context, especially concerning the phonological and uncertain variables. Most differences are found in the frica:ve and in the unstressed contexts . Occurrence 1. With plosives, the paeerns are the same except for breathiness being sensi:ve to phonological vowel backness. 2. With frica:ves, the paeerns are different. Dura:on 1. The paeerns condi:oned by the phonological variables are the same except for vowel length, to which only preaspira:on is sensi:ve. 2. Phone:c height and backness do not condi:on the two either in the same or in the opposite way, so they do not behave in the same way nor show tradeoffs. Speakers A period of voiceless (primarily) gloeal fric:on in sequences of a sonorant and a voiceless obstruent: Figure 1: preaspira8on. Preaspira:on can be accompanied with breathiness. Preaspira:on and breathiness show similariCes: their occurrence and dura:on show on the whole the same paeerns in apparent:me they both enhance the for:slenis contrast in the plosive stressed context (mock, mocker), they mostly cooccur However, they also show differences: their occurrence is not sensi:ve to gender in the same way in the frica:ve stressed context (moss) and in the unstressed context (frolic), breathiness is obligatory, but preaspira:on is not Conclusions: The two should be analysed separately unless it is demonstrated that they are consistently subject to the same condi:oning. Preaspira:on and breathiness are not dis:nguished in phonological studies (e.g. [1718]), but it has been suggested that dis:nguishing the two may shed light on the affilia:on debates [16]. We may gain more insight regarding the linguis:c and the social condi:oning of preaspira:on and breathiness: merging the two may lead to obscuring the paeerns, as also illustrated by [1315]. [1] Helgason, P. 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(2007) “Timing, segmental status and aspiration in Icelandic”. Transactions of the Philological Society 105, 1. 66-104. [17] Árnason, K. (1986) “The Segmental and Suprasegmental Status of Preaspiration in Modern Icelandic”. Nordic Journal of Linguistics 9, 1. 1-23. [18] Gussmann, E. (2002) Phonology. CUP: Cambridge. Discussion Aberystwyth 18 speakers born & raised in Aberystwyth most with parents also from midWales L1 Welsh speakers, proficient in English 12 females, 6 males 2490 years old Segmental conditioning Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Manchester [email protected] Defining breathiness Co-occurrence In the plosive stressed context (mock, mocker), preaspira:on and breathiness cooccur in the vast majority of cases (Figure 6). Figure 6: occurrence of preaspira8on and breathiness in the plosive context in stressed syllables per speaker. In the frica:ve stressed context (moss) and also in the unstressed context (frolic), breathiness is obligatory but preaspira:on is not (Figure 7): Figure 7: (on the leD) occurrence of preaspira8on and breathiness in the frica8ve context in stressed syllables per speaker; (on the right) occurrence of preaspira8on and breathiness in unstressed syllables per speaker. In the unstressed context, breathiness is obligatory irrespec:ve of the manner of ar:cula:on, although slightly less frequent in the plosive context (frica:ves: 99%; plosives: 85%). Preaspira:on is much more frequent in the plosive than the frica:ve context, but does not reach values comparable to breathiness (frica:ves: 12%; plosives: 67.5%). Defining pre-aspiration Data Stressed syllables /a/, /ɛ/, /ɪ/, /ɒ/, /ʊ/, /ʌ/, /aː/, /oː/ combined with /p/, /t/, /k/ in word finally and wordmedially (mock, mocker) /a/, /ɛ/, /ɪ/, /ɒ/, /ʌ/ combined with /f/, /θ/, /s/, /ʃ/ wordfinally (mash) 3 tokens per word: 1x in isola:on, 2x in a carrier sentence Say ___ once. Unstressed syllables disyllables with the second unstressed syllable /p/, /t/, /k/, /f/, /s/, /ʃ/ wordfinal in the 2 nd , unstressed syllable (e.g. frolic, Philip, sheriff) 6 tokens per word in a carrier sentence 8,400 tokens for the stressed condi:on, 460 for the unstressed one For:slenis pairs 998 lenis tokens corresponding to 998 for:s tokens differing only in the plosive in ques:on Social conditioning In apparent:me, preaspira:on and breathiness occurrence show a very similar paeern. Preaspira:on and breathiness dura:ons show the same paeern, but breathiness is more variable across the individual. Figure 4: (on the leD) preaspira8on and breathiness occurrence in apparent8me; (on the right) pre aspira8on and breathiness dura8on in apparent8me. However, only preaspira:on occurrence is sensi:ve to gender: the young the male speakers, the more frequent the preaspira:on: Figure 5: pre-aspiration occurrence in apparent-time across gender. 70 100 130 160 190 220 250 280 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 Frequency of occurrence Age Age and breathiness & pre-aspiration occurrence "pre-aspiration" "breathiness" Linear("pre-aspiration") Linear("breathiness") 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5 5.5 6 6.5 7 7.5 8 8.5 9 9.5 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 Duration (%) Age Age and breathiness & pre-aspiration duration "pre-aspiration" "breathiness" Linear("pre-aspiration") Linear("breathiness") 70 100 130 160 190 220 250 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 Pre-aspiration frequency Age Age, gender, and pre-aspiration occurrence females males Linear(females) Linear(males) Fortis-lenis contrast Both preaspira:on and breathiness enhance the for:slenis contrast (based on acous:c evidence). However, whilst preaspira:on is never found in the lenis series, breathiness is. Figure 8: (on the leD) occurrence of preaspira8on and the plosive series per posi8on in word and sentence; (on the right) occurrence of breathiness and the plosive series per posi8on in word and sentence. References