Acoustic characteristics of Utah's CARD-CORD merger

    Authors

    D. Bowie

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    Am. Speech

    Keywords

    Linguistics; Language & Linguistics

    Abstract

    Several claims have been put forward to explain the character of Utah's CARD-CORD merger, in which /(sic)/ is variably produced as [(sic)]. Instances of words containing /(sic)/ from the running speech of a Utahn who variably exhibits the merger were rated by a panel of speakers on whether they were produced as [(sic)] or [(sic)], allowing utterances to be classified as merged (into [(sic)]), unmerged, or intermediate. Merged and unmerged instances were not found to be separated cleanly when taking just F-1 and F-2 into consideration, but looking at F-1, F-2, and F-3 simultaneously resulted in a clean split between those categories, with the intermediate cases falling along the border between them. Further, the formant values did not match up with any simple articulatory explanation for the merger and its attendant distinction. Not only does this demonstrate that Utah's CARD-CORD merger is the result of the simultaneous manipulation of multiple articulatory features, it raises the possibility that clear separation between phonetic categories could be found in other cases that might generally be expected to have some overlap.

    Journal Title

    American Speech

    Volume

    83

    Issue/Number

    1

    Publication Date

    1-1-2008

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    35

    Last Page

    61

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000255290400002

    ISSN

    0003-1283

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