Abstract
This paper investigates manner variation of Israeli Hebrew rhotics with respect to two factors: prosodic position and speaker gender. An acoustic experimental study shows that although the Hebrew rhotic phoneme tends to be a dorsal approximant, it is significantly more likely to undergo fortition in onset position. This fortition is a result of target overshoot, the rhotic subsequently being produced with a greater degree of constriction than that which would have resulted in an approximant, subsequently surfacing as a stop, a fricative, a tap or a trill. Furthermore, in onset position, feMale speakers show more variation and produce fewer approximants than Male speakers.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 28-48 |
Number of pages | 21 |
Journal | Brill's Journal of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics |
Volume | 11 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:� koninklijke brill nv, leiden, 2019
Keywords
- Allophony
- Hebrew
- Onset fortition
- Rhotic