Tabain Marija
Department of Languages and Linguistics, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia,
Phonetica. 2019;76(6):399-428. doi: 10.1159/000496409. Epub 2019 May 2.
Arrernte is a language with a relatively large consonant inventory, and a relatively small vowel inventory. In this study, electropalatography is used to examine lingual consonant production according to lexical stress, in the context of the two most common vowels in the language, the central vowels /a/ and /ə/. The consonants examined are /t̪ n̪ l̪ t n l ʈ ɳ ɭ ɻ c ɲ ʎ j k ŋ w/. Data are for two female speakers and are taken from a large database of read texts. Results show very little articulatory variation in consonant production depending on the contexts examined. Although consonants before a stressed vowel have greater duration than consonants before an unstressed vowel, there is no consistent difference in tongue-palate contact patterns between the two prosodic contexts. The main exception to this pattern is the retroflex stop, nasal and lateral, which show a more posterior contact before an unstressed vowel: it is suggested that this is because the preceding stressed vowel contains the primary cues to retroflex place of articulation.
阿兰特语是一种辅音系统相对较大、元音系统相对较小的语言。在本研究中，运用电子腭位描记法，在该语言中两个最常见的元音，即央元音/a/和/ə/的语境下，根据词汇重音来研究舌面辅音的发音。所研究的辅音有/t̪ n̪ l̪ t n l ʈ ɳ ɭ ɻ c ɲ ʎ j k ŋ w/。数据来自两位女性说话者，取自一个大型的朗读文本数据库。结果表明，根据所考察的语境，辅音发音的发音变化非常小。尽管重读音节前的辅音比非重读音节前的辅音持续时间更长，但在这两种韵律语境下，舌与腭的接触模式并没有一致的差异。这种模式的主要例外是卷舌塞音、鼻音和边音，它们在非重读音节前的接触位置更靠后：有人认为这是因为前面的重读音节包含了卷舌发音部位的主要线索。
