| ROA: | 558 |
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| Title: | Labial palatalization in Polish Dialects: A gestural account of phonetic implementation |
| Authors: | Alexei Kochetov |
| Comment: | Published in: The Canadian Linguistic Association Annual Proceedings, 1998, pp. 38-50. |
| Length: | 14 |
| Abstract: | In several northeastern dialects of Polish palatalized labials show a range of surface realizations: they are attested as labials with secondary palatal articulation, sequences labial + palatal glide, labial + palatal fricative, or labial + alveopalatal fricative. These realizations are additionally complicated by gradiency and free variation effects (dialects of Mazovia, Varmija and Mazury: Basara et al. 1959, Zdunska 1965, Stieber 1968). In this paper I present an analysis of these realizations by I adopting a gestural approach to phonetic implementation (Zsiga 1997; Browman & Goldstein 1989) and an Optimality Theoretic approach to enhancement as maximizing perceptual contrastiveness (Flemming 1995, Ní Chiosáin & Padgett 1997). The account has two parts: First, I demonstrate that the attested gradiency and variability in realization of palatalized labials result from dialect-specific gestural interpretations of the same phonological representation. Then, I show that these patterns of realizations are motivated by the need to preserve and enhance the phonemic contrast. |
| Type: | Paper/tech report |
| Area/Keywords: | Phonology, Phonetics |
| Article: | Version 1 |