Mády, Katalin (2010) Shortening of long high vowels in Hungarian : a perceptual loss? In: Proc. Sociophonetics at the crossroads of speech variation, processing and communication, Pisa, Italy.
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Abstract
Vowel quantity is distinctive in Hungarian for all vowels. However, the quantity opposition in high vowels has become unstable in colloquial speech. Possible reasons are the low functional load of this distinctive feature and the lack of supporting acoustic cues such as spectral differences between long and short high vowels. According to Ohala’s model of sound change, the quantity neutralisation process in the production of high vowels might go back to a perceptual loss. This was tested in a forced-choice categorisation experiment for high, mid, and low vowels with different age groups. Our results show a decreased sensibility for high and also mid vowels, but only in unstressed position.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Poster) |
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > PH Finno-Ugrian, Basque languages and literatures / finnugor és baszk nyelvek és irodalom > PH04 Hungarian language and literature / magyar nyelv és irodalom |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Katalin Mády |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Jan 2014 16:00 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Apr 2023 07:52 |
| URI: | http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/8767 |
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