Toward a metric estimating the impact of initial consonant mutation on neutralisation and contrastivity: a Welsh case study
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- Florian Breit - Speaker
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Paper presented at the 2023 Western Conference on Linguistics: Initial syllable faithfulness is a well-established and strong bias against alternations affecting the left edge of the word (e.g. Trubetzkoy 1939, Steriade 1994, Beckman 1998, Casali 1998, Alber 2001, Smith 2002, Barnes 2002, Becker et al. 2012). This is reflected in the disproportionally important role word onsets play in word recognition (Beckman 1998, Smith 2002). As Smith (2002) argues, such initial alternations must, if anything, improve recognisability, e.g. by increasing prominence for the parser.
11 Nov 2023
Event (Conference)
| Title | 2023 Western Conference on Linguistics |
|---|---|
| Abbrev. Title | WECOL |
| Period | 11/11/23 → 12/11/23 |
| Web address (URL) | |
| Location | California State University, Fresno |
| City | Fresno |
| Country/Territory | United States |
| Degree of recognition | International event |
Event (Conference)
| Title | 2023 Western Conference on Linguistics |
|---|---|
| Abbreviated title | WECOL |
| Date | 11/11/23 → 12/11/23 |
| Website | |
| Location | California State University, Fresno |
| City | Fresno |
| Country/Territory | United States |
| Degree of recognition | International event |
Keywords
- Welsh language, linguistics, phonology, mutation