Reference

Kirby, J., Ladd, D. (2018). Effects of Obstruent Voicing on Vowel F0: Implications for Laryngeal Realism. Yearbook of Poznań Linguistic Meeting, 4(1), 213-235.

BibTeX

@article{kirbyEffectsObstruentVoicing2018,
  title = {Effects of Obstruent Voicing on Vowel {{F0}}: Implications for Laryngeal Realism.},
  author = {Kirby, James and Ladd, D. Robert},
  year = {2018},
  journal = {Yearbook of Pozna{\'n} Linguistic Meeting},
  volume = {4},
  number = {1},
  pages = {213--235},
  abstract = {It is sometimes argued that languages with two-way laryngeal contrasts can be classi-fied according to whether one series is realized canonically with voicing lead or the other with voicing lag. In languages of the first type, such as French, the phonologi-cally relevant feature is argued to be [voice], while in languages of the second type, such as German, the relevant feature is argued to be [spread glottis]. A crucial as-sumption of this position is that the presence of certain contextually stable phonetic cues, namely voicing lead or lag, can be used to diagnose the which feature is phono-logically active. In this paper, we present data on obstruent-intrinsic F0 perturbations (CF0) in two [voice] languages, French and Italian. Voiceless obstruents in both languages are found to raise F0, while F0 following (pre)voiced obstruents patterns together with sonorants, similar to the voiceless unaspirated stops of [spread glottis] languages like German and English. The contextual stability of this cue implies that an active de-voicing  gesture  is  common  to  languages  of both  the [voice]  and  [spread  glottis] types, and undermines the idea that a strict binary dichotomy between true voicing and aspirating languages can be reliably inferred based on properties of the surface phonetics.}
}