Oct 2026· Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies· 0 citations· 17 references
Abstract
Varieties of English differ in (i) the amount of aspiration/voicing in plosives, traditionally measured in Voice Onset Time (VOT), and (ii) the degree of vowel clipping before fortis consonants (the Voicing Effect). The two seem to correlate with each other, with a possible functional explanation, but they also interact with the phonological status of vowel length within the dialect. To eliminate this latter effect, we investigate two varieties, Pākehā and Māori New Zealand English, which share the vowel system. We measure vowel duration and plosive VOT in Praat, conduct statistical analyses using the lme4 package of R and show that correlations between the two features exist independently.
/tr/ onset clusters in Polish and English show different phonetic realizations. Contra previous accounts locating the cause for this in a different gestural timing or a different phonological representation, we propose the two languages employ different perceptual cues necessary for the perception of consonants in lang...
S. Hamann, R. Święciński· Anglica. An International Jo...· 0 citations
Most research into second language (L2) speech deals with segmental phonetics. We consider implications of L2 learning on the quality of the voice itself, since there is evidence that individual languages adopt language-specific voice quality parameters. We present electroglottographic data from advanced Polish learner...
Geoffrey Schwartz, Maral Asiaee, E. Wojtkowiak et al.· Studia Linguistica Universit...· 0 citations
The article presents an empirical study on the laryngeal pattern of English obstruents in ‘voiceless’ obstruent clusters (VOCs) in light of Szigetvári’s (2020) *FortisFortis (*FF) phonotactic claim, which posits that adjacent fortis obstruents are prohibited within morphemes due to articulatory constraints. Using acous...
Vencel Wutka· Anglica. An International Jo...· 0 citations
This study addresses the relation between segmental structure and prosodic transfer in language contact by targeting boundary tones in questions in two contact varieties: Cilentan Italian (CI) and the Cilentan dialect (CD) (southern Italy). Utterance-final unstressed vowels in CD can either be fully preserved or centra...
G. Leo· Journal of Experimental Phon...· 0 citations
This paper investigates the divergent adaptation of the English vowel phoneme /ɪ/ in Russian and Ukrainian loanwords, revealing notable differences despite the close linguistic relationship between the two languages. In Russian, /ɪ/ is predominantly adapted as /i/, with minimal occurrences of [ɨ] on allophonic level, w...
Kateryna Laidler· Prace Językoznawcze· 0 citations
This contribution looks at a particular type of superheavy rhyme in English: a long vowel/diphthong followed by a nasal-stop cluster. Such sequences show a complex interaction of vowel quality and phonation of the final stop; an interaction that remains obscure under current assumptions about the internal structure of...
M. Pochtrager· Anglica. An International Jo...· 0 citations
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