Intervocalic lenition, contrastiveness and neutralization in Catalan

In this study we examine the effects of word boundaries on the lenition of intervocalic voiceless plosives in Catalan in order to test the role of phonological contrastiveness in phonetic processes. Here we test the hypothesis that word-final intervocalic voiceless plosives (VC#V) will show greater...

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Published in:	Isogloss Vol. 8; no. 4; pp. 1 - 20
Main Authors:	Hualde, Jose Ignacio, Zhang, Jennifer
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Bellaterra Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Servei de Publicacions 01-01-2022 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Subjects:	Basque language Catalan Catalan language Dialects Hypotheses Intervocalic lenition Neutralization Phonetics Phonology Reduction (Phonological or Phonetic) Speech Stops Voicing
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