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Title:
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Versprecher: Dissimilation von Konsonanten. Sprachproduktion unter spatio-temporalem Aspekt [Speech Errors: Dissimilation of Consonants. Speech Production under Spatio-temporal Aspect]
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Author:
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Nora Wiedenmann
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Email:
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Degree Awarded:
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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
, Department of Phonetics and Speech Communication
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Degree Date:
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1998
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Linguistic Subfield(s):
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Phonetics
Neurolinguistics
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Director(s):
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Dietmar Zaefferer
Prof. Dr. Gerd Kegel
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Abstract:
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In this approach dissimilation is both speech process and its result. In contrast to approaches of language change, the study examines instances of consonant dissimilation from the speech-error corpora of the Austrian linguist Rudolf Meringer (1895/1908; ca. 870 errors; 3 speakers), of the Austrian anglicist Bernhard Kettemann (ca. 580 errors; 2 speakers) and the author herself (ca. 1,250 errors; 2 speakers). (All the about 2,700 categorized data were already shown in: Nora Wiedenmann (1998), Versprecher. Phänomene und Daten. Mit Materialien auf Diskette. Vienna: Wissenschaftsverlag Edition Praesens.)
After a description of proband idiosycrasies, of speech-error categories, and sound-frequency-weighted data (for nominal data analysis), consonant dissimilations are discussed in terms of speech gestures, of tongue-twister characteristics, diadochokinesis, and speech tempo.
There is agreement on language-change data but there are also causalities demanding further resaerch: Regressive dissimilation is a function of colliding intention while progressive dissimilation stems from muscle-innervation collision during the speech sound preparation period (p. 15: 'Lautvorspann').
The process of dissimilation is unavoidable in human speech to utter all different speech sounds of a language system, given the relatively small number of (universal!) articulatory gestures available and thus repeating themselves over a short period of time.
This dissertation's thoughts are the basis for target-related gesture coordinations of beings (human articulation; animals' touching or grasping), and of robots, too.
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