Phonetic imitation is not conditioned by preservation of phonological contrast but by perceptual salience

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Result on the web
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Phonetic imitation is not conditioned by preservation of phonological contrast but by perceptual salience
Original language description
This study addresses disagreement between previous studies about the hypothesis that phonetic imitation does not occur if it would threaten a phonological contrast. Using a within-subject pretest-shadowing-posttest design, we tested imitability of reduction and extension of prevoicing and vowel duration in Czech, a vowel-quantity language with prevoiced-vs-unaspirated stop contrasts. Results showed imitation of extended but not of reduced prevoicing. This is compatible with the contrast-preservation hypothesis, but may also be ascribed to the lower perceptual salience of prevoicing reduction than its extension in the presence of other voicing cues. In contrast, reducing duration of a Czech long vowel is salient to native listeners. Indeed, both directions of (natural-sounding) vowel duration manipulation were imitated, even though reduction decreased the distance between phonologically long and short categories. We conclude that contrast preservation does not necessarily preclude imita
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Czech description
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection
Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
ISBN
978-0-85261-941-4
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Number of pages
5
Pages from-to
"'Paper number 399'"
Publisher name
University of Glasgow
Place of publication
Glasgow
Event location
Glasgow
Event date
Aug 10, 2015
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
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