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Published on: September 27, 2024
Elicitation context does not drive F0 lowering following voiced stops: Evidence from French and Italian
James Kirby1, D Robert Ladd1, Jiayin Gao1
1Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9AD, United Kingdomj.kirby@ed.ac.uk, d.r.ladd@ed.ac.uk, jiayin.gao@ed.ac.uk, zuzana.elliott@ed.ac.uk.
Abstract:
Consonant-intrinsic F0 (CF0) effects are mainly the result of raising F0 following voiceless obstruents, rather than of lowering F0 following voiced obstruents. However, there are also documented instances where lowered F0 following voiced obstruents is enhanced. Given that both voicing and F0 are affected by prosodic context, it is possible that CF0 is lowered in some contexts but not others. This possibility is investigated by examining CF0 in French and Italian in isolated citation forms. Results are comparable to carrier-phrase contexts, where no F0 lowering after voiced obstruents is observed. Possible sources of the apparent cross-linguistic differences are discussed.
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