Sonority sequencing generalization5/15/2023 Zur Einführung in das Studium der Lautlehre der indogermanischen Sprachen. Preferences and variation in word-initial phonotactics : A multidimensional evaluation of German and Polish. Beckman (Eds.), Papers in Laboratory Phonology I : Between the Grammar and Physics of Speech 1, pp. The role of the sonority cycle in core syllabification. This explains a large variation in cluster inventories in, e.g. Much as the same set of phonological features (complexity, place, manner, voice) is universally available to all languages, each language selects a feature or a subset of features in the construction of clusters, which decide on the idiosyncratic character of clusters in a given phonological system. The latter approach is stressed in this talk. Additionally, traditional cluster evaluation follows the Sonority Sequencing Generalization (Selkirk 1984) which specifies what consonant clusters should be like, rather than what they are like. Steriade 1990, Wiese 1988), although some hierarchies distinguish between voiced and voiceless obstruents (e.g. For instance, sonority tends to be based on manner of articulation (e.g. The approach varies from measures of phonotactic complexity which rely on a subset of phonological features or evaluate cluster well-formedness on the basis of pre-specified conditions. This work is an extension of Orzechowska and Wiese (2015) who advocate the view that phonological features rather segments determine phonotactics in a given language. Additionally, statistical methods of Principal Component Analysis and Cluster Analysis are employed in order to weigh the features and illustrate the groups of clusters which follow a particular set of preferences. On the basis of observed tendencies of feature distribution and co-occurrence, a set of new phonotactic preferences which govern the syllable structure in English is proposed. In this contribution, this encoding is expressed by a set of 19 parameters established for the following features : complexity, place of articulation, manner of articulation and voice. It is demonstrated that while all these factors appear to affect the obtained results (with cluster frequency being the best predictor of the participants’ nonword acceptability decisions), other possible determinants of this phenomenon have to be studied as well.The goal of this talk is to provide an analysis of English consonant clusters based on the assumption that phonotactic preferences are encoded in phonological features of individual segments forming a cluster. The experimental results were next examined from the perspective of three possible determinants of the participants’ acceptability judgements: the sonority profile of the clusters measured in terms of the Sonority Sequencing Generalization (Selkirk 1982) and Net Auditory Distance (Dziubalska-Kołaczyk 2009, 2014), as well as corpus frequency of the examined sequences. Using a five-point scale, 50 Polish students were requested to make acceptability judgements of 80 monosyllabic nonwords with either initial or final sequences of double consonants which follow the phonotactic restrictions of Polish. This chapter presents the first study devoted to Polish native speakers’ phonotactic intuitions concerning the well-formedness of nonwords with two-consonant clusters.
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