Phonological context effects for voicing and devoicing in French
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2007
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Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
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We examine occurrences of categorical assimilation (neutralizations) in French, the perception of voiced and unvoiced word-final obstruents in different phonological contexts. We first show the categorical nature of the alternation (Exp. 1), supported in Exp. 2 by perceptual categorization data. In Exp. 3, the interpretation of this first percept appears to be corrected in certain contexts, inducing compensation. We argue that context effects are phonological in this case, rather than auditory or phonetic. We conclude that linguistic knowledge of alternations is necessary in compensation for categorical assimilation.
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voicing and devoicing assimilation, French, context effects, perceptual learning
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Darcy, I., & Kügler, F. (2007) Phonological context effects for voicing and devoicing in French. In Trouvain, Jürgen and William J. Barry (eds.). Proceedings of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. 1257-1260). Saarbrücken.
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