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Evidence against interactive effects on articulation in Javanese verb paradigms
Scott Seyfarth1, Jozina Vander Klok2, Marc Garellek3
1Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University, 1712 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA. seyfarth.2@osu.edu.
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
|July 11, 2019
Summary
Interactive speech production models suggest related words influence pronunciation. However, this study found no phonetic traces in Javanese verbs, challenging the co-activation hypothesis for morphologically related wordforms.
Area of Science:
- Linguistics
- Phonetics
- Psycholinguistics
Background:
- Interactive models of speech production posit that co-activation of related wordforms influences phonetic output.
- This mechanism is hypothesized to explain phonetic similarities in morphologically related words.
Purpose of the Study:
- To test the hypothesis that co-activated wordforms leave phonetic traces in Javanese verbs.
- To investigate whether alternating nasal-initial forms show phonetic differences compared to non-alternating ones.
Main Methods:
- Acoustic analysis of nasal resonance and closure duration.
- Production of matched pairs of alternating and non-alternating Javanese verb forms by 27 native speakers.
Main Results:
- No significant phonetic differences were found between alternating and non-alternating nasal-initial forms.
- The acoustic measures did not support the hypothesis of phonetic traces from co-activation.
Conclusions:
- Interactive effects during lexical planning do not adequately explain morphologically conditioned phonetic similarities.
- An alternative explanation involving competition between phonotactic constraints and word-specific phonological structures is proposed.
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