Differential positional neutralization of back vowels in two Majorcan Catalan sub-dialects
Llompart Garcia M, Simonet M (2015)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Conference contribution, Conference Contribution
Publication year: 2015
Pages Range: Paper number 781
Conference Proceedings Title: Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
Event location: Glasgow
URI: https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/icphs-proceedings/ICPhS2015/Papers/ICPHS0781.pdf
Open Access Link: https://www.internationalphoneticassociation.org/icphs-proceedings/ICPhS2015/Papers/ICPHS0781.pdf
Abstract
The present paper explores the patterns of unstressed vowel reduction affecting the three back vowels of Catalan: /ɔ/, /o/ and /u/. In particular, we examine two reduction patterns found in the Catalan dialect spoken on the island of Majorca: (i) the general Majorcan pattern according to which /ɔ/ and /o/ merge to [o] in unstressed position and /u/ remains different (as [u]), and (ii) a pattern found only in one small village on the island of Majorca, Sóller, according to which /ɔ/, /o/ and /u/ all merge to [u]. By means of an acoustic study, the present paper establishes that the traditional impressionistic descriptions of these sub- dialects of Catalan with respect to their back vowels are correct and that these processes are thus best described as categorical, phonological (rather than gradient, phonetic) processes.
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APA:
Llompart Garcia, M., & Simonet, M. (2015). Differential positional neutralization of back vowels in two Majorcan Catalan sub-dialects. In The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015 (Eds.), Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (pp. Paper number 781). Glasgow, GB.
MLA:
Llompart Garcia, Miguel, and Miquel Simonet. "Differential positional neutralization of back vowels in two Majorcan Catalan sub-dialects." Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Glasgow Ed. The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015, 2015. Paper number 781.
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