Vowel hiatus at Polish word boundaries – Phonetic realization and phonological implications

• Authors: Geoffrey Schwartz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper presents an acoustic phonetic study of Polish V#V sequences designed to shed light on the phonological representation of glottal marking. Independent phonological evidence from Polish suggests that initial vowels contain an "empty onset" that may be realized as glottal marking. The results of the experiment suggest that glottal marking in Polish is quite robust, and may be realized by increases in spectral balance. In the Onset Prominence environment, the "empty onset" is derived from phonetic principles, realized as specification for the Vocalic Onset layer of structure. VO parameter settings capture important ambiguities in speech perception and allow for a unified analysis of glottal marking, distributional restrictions on Polish vowels, and ambiguities underlying palatalization processes.

Keywords

EN

vowel hiatus; glottalization; phonological representation; word boundaries; Polish language

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Journal: Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 49
• Pages: 557-585

Dates

published

2013

received

2013-02-21

revised

2013-06-22

accepted

2013-06-26

Contributors

author

Geoffrey Schwartz

• Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/psicl-2013-0021