Perception of repeated /l/ and /n/: Implications for understanding dissimilation
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https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v5i1.4737Keywords:
dissimilation, hypercorrection, speech perception, nasals, lateralsAbstract
We test Ohala’s (1993) hypothesis that phonological dissimilation can result from perceptual errors. Using a task in which American English speakers hear and orthographically transcribe nonce words, we test whether they are more likely to omit an acoustically present /l/ or /n/ when heard in a word where another token of the same sound is present. We find that this is the case for /l/ but not for /n/. These results mirror the actual prevalence of dissimilation in American English, where /l/-dissimilation occurs occasionally, but /n/-dissimilation rarely or never.Downloads
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2020-03-23
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Published by the LSA with permission of the author(s) under a CC BY 4.0 license.
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Hall, Nancy, Bianca Godinez, Megan Walsh, Sarah Garcia, and Araceli Carmona. 2020. “Perception of Repeated L and N : Implications for Understanding Dissimilation”. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 5 (1): 446–459. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v5i1.4737.