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Phonetica

International Journal of Phonetic Science

ISSN: 1423-0321

Editor-in-chief: Catherine T. Best

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Call for an Editor-in-Chief

De Gruyter invites applications for the position of Editor-in-Chief, Phonetica

Deadline: 29 February 2024

We are looking for a new Editor-in-Chief of Phonetica to work with our existing team of expert Associate Editors and International Editorial Board. The new Editor will also have the opportunity to further shape the team.

Applications should comprise a covering letter, a CV, and a 300-word summary about how your experience matches the aims and scope of Phonetica, and how you envisage the journal will develop under your leadership.

Please contact Megan Gough (Journal Manager, Phonetica) at megan.gough@degruyter.com with any informal queries.

Applications should be sent by email to the current Editor-in-Chief, Catherine Best (C.Best@westernsydney.edu.au), and the Journal Manager for Phonetica, Megan Gough (megan.gough@degruyter.com).

Read the full Call for an Editor-in-Chief here.

Aims & Scope
Contemporary interdisciplinary research on phonetics employs a wide range of approaches, from instrumental measures to perceptual and neurocognitive procedures, to computational modelling, for investigating the properties and principles of phonetics in communicative settings across the world’s languages. It also ranges across styles, types of language users, and communicative modalities (speech, sign, song). Phonetica is an international forum for phonetic science that covers all aspects of the subject matter, from phonetic and phonological descriptions, to articulatory and signal analytic measures of production, to perception, acquisition, and phonetic variation and change. Phonetica thus provides a platform for a comprehensive understanding of producer-perceiver interaction across languages and dialects, and of learning throughout the lifespan and across contexts. Papers published in this journal report expert original work that deals both with theoretical issues, new empirical data, and innovative methods and applications that help to advance the field.

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History

Founded 1957 by E. Zwirner.
Edited by E. Zwirner 1957–1969, B. Malmberg 1962–1969,
H. Pilch 1962–1978, W. Bethge 1963–1969, G. Ungeheuer 1970–1978.
Redactor 1970–1978 W. Bethge. Edited by K.J. Kohler 1979–2013.

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Volume 81 Issue 2

April 2024

Publicly Available April 10, 2024

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Research Articles

Publicly Available February 27, 2024

Hiatus resolution and linguistic diversity in Australian English

Joshua Penney, Felicity Cox, Andy Gibson

Page range: 119-152

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Vowel hiatus is typically resolved in Australian English through complementary strategies of liaison (j-gliding/w-gliding/linking-r) and glottalisation. Previous work suggests a change in progress towards increased use of glottalisation as an optimal hiatus-breaker, which creates syntagmatic contrast between adjacent vowels, particularly when the right-edge vowel is strong (i.e. at the foot boundary). Liaison continues to be used when right-edge vowels are weak, but glottalisation as a hiatus resolution strategy in general appears to be increasing and may be more common in speakers from non-English speaking backgrounds raising the question of whether exposure to linguistic diversity could be driving the change. We examine hiatus resolution in speakers from neighbourhoods that vary according to levels of language diversity. We elicited gliding and linking-r hiatus contexts to determine how prosodic strength of flanking vowels and speakers’ exposure to linguistic diversity affect hiatus resolution. Results confirm that glottalisation occurs most frequently with strong right-edge vowels, and gliding/linking-r are more likely with weak right-edge vowels. However, strategies differ between gliding and linking-r contexts, suggesting differing implementation mechanisms. In addition, speakers from ethnolinguistically diverse areas produce increased glottalisation in all contexts supporting the idea that change to the hiatus resolution system may be driven by language contact.

Open Access November 29, 2023

Perception of illusory clusters: the role of native timing

Harim Kwon, Ioana Chitoran

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We explore the influence of native timing patterns on nonnative speech perception, by asking whether a nonnative CVCV sequence can be perceived as CCV when the temporal organization of nonnative CVCV is similar to native CCV. To explore this question, Georgian listeners are tested on a CCa-CVCá discrimination in French. Georgian has a rich word-onset cluster inventory, with component consonants loosely timed. The loose timing often, though not always, results in a schwa-like CC transition. French, the stimulus language, exhibits tighter timing in biconsonantal clusters, no vocalic transitions, and a reduced non-prominent first vowel in CVCá sequences. We hypothesize that the cross-language difference in inter-consonantal timing can facilitate the perception of an illusory cluster when Georgian listeners hear French CVCá. The findings reveal such perceptual confusion, particularly in the CCa-CøCá contrast in which the nonnative /ø/ is phonetically similar to the CC transition in Georgian, both in terms of temporal organizations and tongue shape. This confirms the possibility of illusory clusters, which is consistent with the interpretation that Georgian listeners utilize their knowledge of how word-onset CC clusters are temporally implemented in their native language when responding to the task. We propose that the timing pattern may constitute language-specific knowledge and that it can influence the perceptual assimilation patterns in nonnative speech perception.

February 15, 2024

Dynamic specification of vowels in Hijazi Arabic

Wael Almurashi, Jalal Al-Tamimi, Ghada Khattab

Page range: 185-220

Abstract

Research on various languages shows that dynamic approaches to vowel acoustics – in particular Vowel-Inherent Spectral Change (VISC) – can play a vital role in characterising and classifying monophthongal vowels compared with a static model. This study’s aim was to investigate whether dynamic cues also allow for better description and classification of the Hijazi Arabic (HA) vowel system, a phonological system based on both temporal and spectral distinctions. Along with static and dynamic F1 and F2 patterns, we evaluated the extent to which vowel duration, F0, and F3 contribute to increased/decreased discriminability among vowels. Data were collected from 20 native HA speakers (10 females and 10 males) producing eight HA monophthongal vowels in a word list with varied consonantal contexts. Results showed that dynamic cues provide further insights regarding HA vowels that are not normally gleaned from static measures alone. Using discriminant analysis, the dynamic cues (particularly the seven-point model) had relatively higher classification rates, and vowel duration was found to play a significant role as an additional cue. Our results are in line with dynamic approaches and highlight the importance of looking beyond static cues and beyond the first two formants for further insights into the description and classification of vowel systems.

Open Access December 14, 2023

Do letters matter? The influence of spelling on acoustic duration

Julia Muschalik, Gero Kunter

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The present article describes a modified and extended replication of a corpus study by Brewer (2008. Phonetic reflexes of orthographic characteristics in lexical representation . Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona PhD thesis) which reports differences in the acoustic duration of homophonous but heterographic sounds. The original findings point to a quantity effect of spelling on acoustic duration, i.e., the more letters are used to spell a sound, the longer the sound’s duration. Such a finding would have extensive theoretical implications and necessitate more research on how exactly spelling would come to influence speech production. However, the effects found by Brewer (2008) did not consistently reach statistical significance and the analysis did not include many of the covariates which are known by now to influence segment duration, rendering the robustness of the results at least questionable. Employing a more nuanced operationalization of graphemic units and a more advanced statistical analysis, the current replication fails to find the reported effect of letter quantity. Instead, we find an effect of graphemic complexity. Speakers realize consonants that do not have a visible graphemic correlate with shorter durations: the /s/ in tux is shorter that the /s/ in fuss . The effect presumably resembles orthographic visibility effects found in perception. In addition, our results highlight the need for a more rigorous approach to replicability in linguistics.

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Journal Impact Factor	0.9	2022, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2023)
5-year Journal Impact Factor	0.9	2022, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2023)
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Editorial

Editor
Catherine T. Best
University of Western Sydney
Penrith
NSW
Australia

Associate Editors
Donald Derrick (University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand)
Sonia Frota (Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal)
Wentao Gu (Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China)
Allard Jongman (The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA)
Ghada Khattab (Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
Alexei Kochetov (University of Toronto, Toronto, ONT, Canada)
Linda Polka (McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada)
Patrick C.M. Wong (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Associate Editor - Books
Oliver Niebuhr (Alsion University of Southern Denmark, Sonderborg, Denmark

Editorial Board
Plinio Almeida Barbosa (State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil)
William J. Barry (Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany)
Patrice Speeter Beddor (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA)
Ann Bradlow (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA)
Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kolaczyk (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland)
Janet Fletcher (University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia)
Louis Goldstein (University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
John Hajek (University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia)
Sarah Hawkins (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK)
Rachel Hayes-Harb (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA)
David House (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden)
Shigeto Kawahara (Keio University, Tokyo, Japan)
Lucie Ménard (Université de Quebec, Montréal, QC, Canada)
Christine Mooshammer (Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany)
Richard Ogden (University of York, York, UK)
Marianne Pouplier (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany)
Daniel Recasens (Universitat Autónoma Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)
Rachel Walker (University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA)
Alicia Beckford Wassink (University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA)
Kevin Watson (University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand)
Douglas H. Whalen (Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA)

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Online ISSN: 1423-0321
Print ISSN: 0031-8388
Type: Journal
Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
First published: January 1, 1957
Publication Frequency: 6 Issues per Year