Voicing assimilation at accentual phrase boundaries in Hungarian

Mády, Katalin and Bárkányi, Zsuzsanna (2015). Voicing assimilation at accentual phrase boundaries in Hungarian. In: Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (Wolters, Maria; Livingstone, Judy; Beattie, Bernie; Smith, Rachel; MacMahon, Mike; Stuart-Smith, Jane and Scobbie, Jim eds.), The Scottish Consortium for ICPhS 2015, Glasgow, UK.

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Abstract

The present study investigates the influence of prosodic structure on pre-sonorant voicing in Slovak. Our results demonstrate that prosodic boundaries as well as accent interact in a meaningful way with voicing assimilation. If a major boundary intervenes, the role of accent is eliminated, while in other contexts the presence of contrastive focus induces less voicing. A novel finding of the study is that sonorant consonants and vowels differ considerably in this assimilation process. It is also demonstrated that pre-sonorant voicing in Slovak is categorical but optional and is close to being completely neutralizing.

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