LINGUIST List 13.1689

Fri Jun 14 2002

Books: Phonetics/ Phonology, Steve Parker

Editor for this issue: Dina Kapetangianni <dinalinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. glsa, Quantifying the Sonority Hierarchy, Steve Parker's dissertation

(Dissertation, Phonetics/Phonology)

Steve Parker (University of Massachusetts). Quantifying the Sonority Hierarchy 
(2002)
		
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ABSTRACT

This work helps resolve a perennial controversy in the interface
between phonetics and phonology: the physical basis of sonority. It
begins with an 86- page summary and critical review of the extant
literature on sonority. It then presents the results of an
instrumental study of five acoustic and aerodynamic correlates of
sonority in English and Spanish: intensity, F1, duration, intraoral
air pressure, and air flow. It concludes with a psycholinguistic
experiment in which sonority is crucial in accounting for preferred
word order in English reduplicative rhymes such as roly-poly.