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2010 | 4 | 125-140

Article title

Phonetic realisations of the Polish rhotic in intervocalic position: a pilot study

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Title variants

PL
Fonetyczne realizacje polskiego /r/ w pozycji interwokalicznej: badania pilotażowe

Languages of publication

EN

Abstracts

EN
Even though rhotics, be it taps, trills or approximants, are very common sounds in the world’s langauges, there is a consensus in the literature that they constitute an articulatory diffi culty. Not only are they acquired at the last stages of the acquisition period, but also their distribution is usually constrained. Since speakers fi nd them diffi cult to produce, rhotics are particularly susceptible to lenition. The present paper reports the results of an experiment that aimed at describing various physical realisations of the Polish phoneme /r/ placed in intervocalic position. The data presented in the article show that in this position speakers do not articulate a tap, but in most cases they produce either a fricative or an approximant.
PL
W literaturze fonetycznej polska głoska /r/ opisywana jest jako drżąca, tzn. taka, która jest artykułowana poprzez wykonanie serii gestów, na ogół czubkiem języka, powodujących na przemian otwieranie i zamykanie aparatu mowy. Jednakże w mowie dźwięk ten ma kilka różnych artykulacji, np. frykatyw, aproksymant lub [r] jednouderzeniowe ‘tap’. Artykuł ten opisuje cechy artykulacyjne i akustyczne różnych fizycznych realizacji tego dźwięku w pozycji interwokalicznej.

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Year

Issue

4

Pages

125-140

Physical description

Dates

published
2010

Contributors

  • Uniwersytet Szczeciński

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Document Type

Publication order reference

Identifiers

ISSN
1734-4557

YADDA identifier

bwmeta1.element.desklight-63c6750a-df35-4efe-b3a0-b96eb2692397
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