26.1175, Review: Lang Acq; Phonetics; Phonology; Socioling: Spreafico, Vietti (2013)

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EDITOR: Lorenzo  Spreafico
EDITOR: Alessandro  Vietti
TITLE: Rhotics
SUBTITLE: New Data and Perspectives
PUBLISHER: Bozen-Bolzano University Press
YEAR: 2013

REVIEWER: Malcah Yaeger-Dror, University of Arizona

Review's Editors: Malgorzata Cavar and Sara Couture

SUMMARY  

The book under review provides a collection of papers presented at
‘r-atics-3’, held at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in 2011, as a
continuation of the first two conferences on this topic, held in 2000 and
2002.The book provides insight into the patterns of variation and change of
rhotics in different languages, from a variety of perspectives, shedding light
on the phonetics, phonology, acquisition, and sociolinguistic variation of
/r/-sounds in languages as diverse as Dutch, English, French, German, Greek,
Hebrew, Italian, Kuikuro, Malayalam, Romanian, Saraiki-Punjabi, Slovak,
Tyrolean-German and Washili Shingazidja; in the process, it contributes to the
discussion on the unity and uniqueness of this group of sounds.  Given the
importance of this topic both to phonetics and the sociophonetics of language
variation (Maguire and MacMahon 2011), it is not surprising that there are 13
outstanding papers in the collection: seven concerning the phonetic
realization of rhotics in different languages, three concerning language
change, and three on variation in the speech of bilinguals.

 Chapter I is an introduction or ‘preamble’ by the editors, Alessandro Vietti
and Lorenzo Spreafico (pp. 9-19). It focuses on the fact that the class of
‘rhotics’ is both acoustically and articulatorily quite diverse, as well as on
the fact that in many communities, multiple rhotic variants occur
simultaneously, carrying social as well as linguistic meaning for the
community.  The book’s chapters provide evidence for the claims made in the
introduction. The editors point out that many of the papers foreground
articulatory as well as acoustic evidence, reflecting recent advances since
2003.

The first article, by van ‘t Veer (pp. 23-40), considers different rhotic
acquisition patterns for two toddlers (ages 1-2 and 1-4) of Quebec French -- a
boy and  a girl.  She focuses on KR clusters.  Unfortunately the author does
not inform us of the toddlers’ social background, their parents’ rhotic
patterns, the extent to which they interact with speakers from outside their
immediate families, or where exactly in the province the study was carried
out.  Quebec rhotics have been documented to vary by (a) dialect region in
Quebec (e.g., Santerre 1978, Sankoff and Blondeau 2007), and (b) the major
changes taking place in the rhotic system of the province (Sankoff and
Blondeau 2007, this volume), so giving information on /r/ realization in
clusters without any of that other information is less helpful than one might
wish.  Moreover, given the article’s inclusion in a section on bilingualism,
it is surprising that the author never clarifies even the extent to which the
children’s parents (much less the children themselves) are bilingual. The
study codes rhotic tokens for duration, voicing, manner, and place of
articulation, to support Flege’s claims, but without the absent
socio-demographic information, it is very difficult to draw conclusions.

Syed’s paper, ‘Acquisition of English [r inverted] by adult Saraiki (a
southern dialect of Western Punjabi) Pakistani learners,’ analyzes the extent
to which a rhotic is learnable, based on the distance between the (Saraiki) L1
sound, and the new (British) L2 sound; the results are viewed through the
prism of Flege’s Speech Learning Model (hereafter SLM) (1995).  The
introduction includes a lucid discussion of Flege’s theory, as well as a clear
description of the speakers’ native /r/ (a trill, with a variable
vowel-onglide in the initial position). Syed divides the study population into
three groups based on the extent of L2 [English] contact. Syed first reports
on the perception of the British-r by the L1 Saraiki monolinguals and shows
that the listeners hear the tokens as /l/ or /w/; I wish that he had verified
whether specific acoustic information was more likely to be heard as an
alternative pronunciation. In an AX test, subjects recognize the retroflex-r
presented as ‘the same’ as their own in an /ara/ context approximately 73% of
the time, but they also recognize it as /w/ 60% of the time, and as /l/ 40% of
the time.  Given the studies of Docherty and Foulkes 2001, or Ogden 2009,
presenting evidence that speakers in certain regions of the UK actually
produce a [w]-like /l/, without further evidence we might assume that the
listeners may be accurately reflecting what they hear. Following Flege’s
hypothesis, if the primary requirement is that the speakers be able to
distinguish between their own and the foreign /r/, there is at best 27% chance
that they will learn the English-r; further complications are caused by the
British-/r/’s phonetic similarity to their own /w/ and /l/. Production and
perception tests of 90 adult learners of English  support Flege’s hypotheses;
discrimination of the L2 /r/ from [w] improves for the ‘UK’ learners more than
for the ‘student’ learners, who in turn are better than the ‘inactive’
learners, but even the UK-based group was not very good at articulating a
British-/r/ as distinct from a native L1 /r/.  The article is clear and
supports Flege’s theory.  As a sociolinguist, I might wish that in future
studies the author could also consider the intergroup attitudes of the
speakers; this article provides an impressive study and assessment of Flege’s
theory. Future work should take into consideration evidence that trained
L1-English phoneticians do not necessarily have more reliable perceptions than
the listeners in the study (Yaeger-Dror et al 2009).

In the third study, ‘On rhotics in a bilingual community’ (pp. 57-80),
Spreafico and Vietti carry out Ultrasound Tongue Imaging (UTI) studies of
rhotics in an Italian and Tyrolean-German region.  The study analyzes
articulatory variation by bilinguals from this region and draws conclusions
relative to bilingual theories such as Flege’s.  Previous studies in the
region have stated that Tyrolean speakers use a uvular ‘Bavarian’ /r/ in their
German, but an alveolar flap in their Italian, while the Italian speakers are
more likely to maintain a flap in both. The authors then describe their Word
List Style (WLS) corpus of 19 local bilingual speakers, divided into four
groups according to the extent to which they make use of their L2. The authors
conclude that the balanced bilingual speakers differentiate between the two
languages’ /r/, but the articulatory position differs from that of
monolinguals of either language, maintaining a single articulatory position
for /r/ in both word lists. The two monolingual speakers contrast with each
other and the bilingual group, with one using only dorsal and the other only
alveolar positions. The authors conclude that the simultaneous bilinguals
distinguish the two r’s consistently, but not by a great deal, and not with
any assistance from tongue shape; they suggest that speakers in bilingual
regions may differ from those who acquire two languages independently and who
do not live in a region where both languages are ‘native’. They propose that
while speakers who migrate from one language area to another may attempt to
acquire non-overlapping systems, those raised in bilingual families may prefer
to merge two systems to demonstrate their local-bilingual bonafides. This
study is very informative and raises very interesting questions for our
understanding of theories of language learning. Despite the importance the
authors attribute to language attitudes, unfortunately there is little actual
discussion of the speakers’ (linguistic and cultural) identity.

Part II of  the text analyzes ‘phonetics and phonology’ of rhotics.  Each
chapter analyzes the rhotics from a different speech community. ‘Articulatory
coordination in obstruent-sonorant clusters and syllabic consonants: Data and
Modeling’ by Philip Hoole, Marianne Pouplier, Štefan Beňuš and Lasse Bombien
(pp. 81-96) uses electromyographic (EMA) data to analyze consonant cluster
onsets with rhotics in French and German, and syllabic rhotics as used by
speakers of Slovak.  The first analysis poses the question of why the
likelihood of such clusters differs radically in the languages studied. The
second proposes a theory for why syllabic rhotics are typologically relatively
rare, and proposes a hypothesis for what factors favor the emergence of such
syllabic consonants. The paper emphasizes that analysis of the coordination of
articulatory overlap and systematic patterning may clarify how sound systems
develop. Analysis of rhotics permits systematic cross-language comparisons of
articulatory coordination in the targeted communities.

In the next chapter, ‘Articulating five liquids: A single speaker ultrasound
study of Malayalam,’ by James M. Scobbie, Reenu Punnoose and Ghada Khattab
(pp. 99-124), Malayalam was chosen for analysis because there are five liquids
which are consistently distinguished, two of which are rhotics [a flap and a
trill], two laterals [bright and dark], and a ‘palatal approximant’, which
seems to be similar to the Central and South American ‘assibilated r’ studied
by Proctor (2011). Both acoustic (static) and ultrasound (dynamic) evidence
are presented clearly, along with velocity information. Tricolor (red, blue
and green) figures provide clear evidence for the non-overlap of assibilated
[green], rhotic [red] and lateral [blue] gestures, or for temporal change in a
gesture from V1 [green] to consonant [red] to V2 [blue].  All the figures are
clear and support the points made in the text.  The articulatory study also
lends itself to comparison with studies using other ultrasound systems, like
those of Proctor (2011) which compared Russian and Spanish articulation of
liquids.  The authors make suggestions for future studies of a more diverse
set of vowel environments, as well as for adaptations of their ultrasound
equipment to permit greater analytical focus for future rhotic studies.  At
the moment, however, this study provides the most nuanced analysis of rhotic
and lateral articulation in a Dravidian (or any other) language.

‘The many faces of /r/’ by Mary Baltazani and Katerina Nicolaidis (pp.
125-144) permits analysis of both acoustic and articulatory (electro palatal
-- EPG -- artificial palate of 62 sensors) evidence for the alveolar flap-r in
Greek, comparing five speakers’ rendition of words with /r/ in different
prosodic and phonological positions (in an identical carrier phrase); this
article has a ‘laboratory phonology’ perspective. The research design can be
seen as both an advantage (i.e. “Let’s nail the most ‘careful’ pronunciation
first!”) and a disadvantage (i.e. “How you gonna allow for sociophonetic
variation when the speaker has a mouth full of hardware?”).  There appears to
be an ‘intrusive’ vowel between the /r/ and either a consonant or silence,
even in initial position, often referred to as an epenthetic vowel (Warner et
al 2001). The authors measured the duration of the rhotic and environmental
vowels, as well as the degree of constriction, the level of emphasis, and the
first two formants of the rhotic, under various stress, and coarticulatory
conditions.  Even in a carrier phrase, more than half of the tokens were
produced with incomplete constriction, providing clear evidence that the Greek
rhotic has indeed ‘many faces’. Reduced contact was less likely to occur in
Cr-clusters, where the /r/ is found to assimilate to the neighboring
consonant, but is more likely to occur word initially or in -rC clusters where
the duration is longest.  Note that the degree of durational variation implies
that the Greek ‘flap’ manner of articulation is somewhat compromised. While
this study provides a point of departure for future studies of coarticulation
in Greek, there appears to be fairly considerable variation across
phonological or stress contexts, as well as inter-speaker variation. Results
will be of relevance to socio-phoneticians as well as laboratory phonologists.
 For example, the paper by Sankoff and Blondeau demonstrates that in other
communities as well, gestures for rC and for Cr differ consistently and lead
to differing articulatory patterns. While the Sankoff/Blondeau paper
emphasizes the sociophonetics of the variation, this paper provides an
interesting ‘laboratory phonology’ perspective on such variation.

Comparing phonological positions, the next chapter, ‘Another look at the
structure of [ɾ]: Constricted intervals and vocalic elements’, by
Carmen-Florina Savu (pp. 145-158), analyzes both the structure of the tap and
the adjacent vowel segments which appear in Romanian as well as in Greek and
Polish; the author finds the flap is propped up with ‘epenthetic’ vowels on
both sides. As with the previous paper, durations of both the flaps and
environmental vowels are measured along with the vowels’ formants. The five
speakers produce words and nonsense words (ara, iri, etc.) in isolation; vowel
segments and durations are measured using Praat. Unfortunately, despite the
plethora of normalization programs now available, non-normalized vowels for
all speakers are averaged and plotted onto the same figures, although the
epenthetic schwa-like vowel could vary radically with the speakers’
articulatory tract characteristics. The author concludes from her evidence
that the intrusive/epenthetic vowel segment can be thought of as coarticulated
with the nearest vowel in the word spoken.  It would have been advantageous
for the two adjacent studies to be cross-referenced, at least for the
durational measures of V, r, and epenthetic-vowel segments, despite the fact
that it may be difficult to compare isolated words with words in carrier
phrases. The author concludes that all flap tokens are flanked by vowels,
whether or not the rhotic occurs in a consonant cluster. If there is no
adjacent vowel in the word, a minimal epenthetic neutral vowel is added, even
if the rhotic itself is phonologically treated as the primary vowel in the
word; for the latter, acoustic plots of Serbian and Czech phrases including
/r/ vowels are included.

In the next chapter, ‘New insights into American English V+/r/ Sequences,’ by
María Riera and Joaquin Romero (pp. 159-172), the authors’ focus, as in the
immediately preceding papers, is on the evidence for coarticulation between
vowel and adjacent consonants.  The review of the literature is somewhat
sketchy – including neither discussion of coarticulation (e.g., omitting Gay
et al. 1974, and subsequent Haskins work), nor any of the vast literature on
the extreme variation of ‘rhoticity’ in this position by American speakers
(e.g., by Feagin 1990, Hagiwara 1995, Lawson et al. 2011, or Becker 2014,
among many others).  While the authors consider the six ‘native’
rhotic-dialect speakers as a uniform group, thirty years of phonetic studies
make that claim hard to believe. In addition, all speakers had been living in
Spain at the time of the recordings and were recorded there. Despite the early
Haskins work and recent ultrasound studies, speed of articulation is assumed,
based on the duration of pauses between sentences.  Acoustic measurements were
made for the transition area between V and /r/, with plots for the separate
formants (F1-F3) for ONE speaker.  Unfortunately, the readers are not told
which speaker, nor why the unnormalized formant data for only one speaker is
presented, nor even if in each case the speaker is the same for each formant
plot, and no comparisons are offered between these purportedly ‘same’
speakers. Under these obviously non-optimal conditions it is difficult to
evaluate the importance of this particular study. 

‘/r/ in Washili Shingazidja’ by Cédric Patin (pp.173-190) analyzes variation
in /r/ in the Bantu language, where the rhotic is a flap intervocalically and
a trill in most other positions sampled.  One native speaker of the dialect,
resident in France for the last 10 years, and presumably bilingual, was
recorded reading a word list. he author presented acoustic evidence that there
is an alveolar trill in initial position, before a vowel with a high tone, or
after a consonant, and a flap in all other positions.

‘Prosodic factors in the adaptation of Hebrew rhotics in loanwords from
English’ by Evan-Gary Cohen (pp.191-205) would perhaps have been better-suited
for another publication.  The underlying assumption, that any foreign-origin
lexicon is actually from English, is flawed, given that native speakers and
linguists alike usually assume a generalized ‘foreign language’ source, and
most immigrants are not from English-speaking countries.  More critically, the
author makes claims for the articulatory manner and position of Israeli Hebrew
/r/ which are not supported by the phonetic research which he cites (e.g.,
Bolozky and Kreitman 2007, Schwarzwald 2004), and for which he presents no
quantitative evidence; consequently, this paper appears to be inappropriate
for a volume intended for a phonetically-trained audience.  

The third part of the book, entitled ‘Language variation and change,’ includes
three papers.  The first one, by Antonio Romano (pp. 209-225), ‘A preliminary
contribution to the study of phonetic variation of /r/ in Italian and
Italo-Romance,’ provides interesting material. However, citations from Italian
sources are not glossed. Apparently, Word List Style readings were analyzed;
this is immaterial if there is no interest in relative prestige of different
variants and if there is no interest in change in real time. Given that both
are of interest to the author and are discussed, the decision to limit the
corpus without even a prima facie account for that limitation is unfortunate.
While the article may provide a point of departure for future studies of
variation in Italian, it does not provide an in depth discussion of changes
occurring in Italian.

‘The spreading of uvular [R] in Flanders’ by Hans Van de Velde, Evie Tops, and
Roeland Van Hout (pp. 227-248) proposes a trajectory of change for Flemish in
the 20th and 21st centuries.  The analysis is based on a study of three
diachronic corpora of Flemish recorded between 1925 and 2009, and considers
the shift toward ‘acceptability’ of the uvular R.  Section 2 reviews a
century’s worth of dialect studies on rhotics in Flemish and Dutch.  Section 3
reviews in greater detail dialect studies of 4000 speakers carried out in
Belgium since the 1920s, analyzing the speech of Middle Class Urban speakers
as well as the more traditional NORMS (nonmobile-older-rural-male speakers). 
Both of these dialect geography studies found that, except for the very
eastern tip of the area, only a few speaker-locations on the southern border
actually had shifted to the uvular rhotic by the early 1950s.  The authors
also include the results of a study by the second author from the late 1990s,
which coded speakers for age, as well as region; that ‘trend’ study found the
younger speakers more likely to produce uvular [R] than older speakers. The
presentation is clear and well-supported by the data in the tables, as well as
on the useful maps.  

‘Instability of the [r]~[R] alternation in Montreal French,’ by Gillian
Sankoff and Hélène Blondeau (pp. 249-265), is a follow-up on their “Language”
paper (2007), showing change in real time, based on comparison of interviews
from the 1971 Montreal study, and with interviews with the same speakers in
1984, while taking into consideration the more extensive recordings available
from 1995 as well.  Earlier publications demonstrated that younger members of
the ‘panel’ who had not yet begun to shift toward [R] in 1971 have for the
most part adopted it by 1984, while the older speakers were much less likely
to adopt the newer variant. 

There are two main conclusions from the data from the Montreal study of
phonological variation. First, when tracing change in real time, most
individuals are going to retain the variant of their youth, while a few will
shift toward the newer variant. Second, where change does occur across the
lifespan, it is much more likely to occur in a gradient  context (like vowel
shift), than in a binary change (like the shift from [r] to [R]).

The present analysis focuses on data from the follow-up corpus recorded in
1995 to permit a more nuanced analysis of variation as well as change in real
time for two of the panel members.  For this study they choose two speakers
from the youngest age group who still retained a high percentage of the [r] in
1971, when most of their age-mates were already [R]-ful. The speaker moving up
the social ladder shifted radically toward [R] usage in all contexts, while
the speaker whose socioeconomic status was declining did not advance toward
the newer dialect, but did not shift to the older [r].  The paper makes clear
that a full study of sociolinguistically shifting features will require the
analysis of the situation of use, as well as of socioeconomic and temporal
factors. 

EVALUATION

The book is intended to serve as a point of departure for the research
community working on variation in the phonetic properties of rhotics.
Experimental phoneticians, phonologists, sociolinguists and historical
dialectologists can all learn from the papers in the monograph, which, while
highly technical, present their conclusions clearly and succinctly.  These
studies provide exemplars of how research on rhotic variation can be carried
out.  Most of the papers are very informative and will be useful for future
researchers by providing a template for how to carry out a given research
path, as well as by analysis of specific results.  The publisher (and the
authors) should be commended for having permitted multicolored figures to be
published, since the figures in most of the papers are much more
‘decipherable’ than black and white figures.

On the other hand, it is frustrating that even in a text with a high degree of
overlap among the papers’ themes, where cross-referencing would be helpful,
there is almost no attempt to cross-reference between the papers in order to
take advantage of convergent conclusions, even when the authors are discussing
the same or similar speech communities.  In addition, researchers without
funding to attend the meeting could not be included in the volume.  For
example, while the UTI work presented is laudable one might wish that young
researchers like Mike Proctor or Eleanor Lawson (e.g., Proctor 2011; Lawson et
al. 2011) had been represented in the publication. Similarly, the acoustic
work presented in many of the papers is quite useful and interesting, but it
is a shame that the work of Heselwood, Plug and others carrying out important
research in this domain (e.g., Heselwood et al. 2010; Heselwood and Plug 2011)
was not represented.  One hopes that future conferences in this series will
not only provide a forum for the high quality of analysis and discussion found
in this volume, but will perhaps also allow for papers by authors whose work
is crucial to the field, but who are unable to attend. This monograph is a
valuable resource for future students of variation in rhoticity.

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LSA Presentation.


ABOUT THE REVIEWER

Malcah Yaeger-Dror is a member of the (variationist) sociolinguistics
community, and works closely with corpus and forensic linguists who share her
belief that the larger the corpus, the more you can learn about variation and
change within a given speech community. She has carried out sociophonetic
research on English, French, Spanish and Hebrew vowels, r, and prosody. She
also advocates the study of how intergroup attitudes may influence
sociophonetic choices: speakers’ fluctuating attitudes towards who they want
to be, how they wish to relate to specific interlocutors, & the (multiple)
ways they wish to present themselves in specific situations.





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