34.2041, Books: A model of sonority based on pitch intelligibility: Albert

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Date: 15-Jun-2023
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [sebastian.nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject:  A model of sonority based on pitch intelligibility: Albert


Title: A model of sonority based on pitch intelligibility
Series Title: Studies in Laboratory Phonology
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Language Science Press
                http://langsci-press.org
Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/381

Author: Aviad Albert
Electronic: ISBN: 9783961104109 Pages: 222 Price: Europe EURO 0
Abstract:

Sonority is a central notion in phonetics and phonology and it is
essential for generalizations related to syllabic organization.
However, to date there is no clear consensus on the phonetic basis of
sonority, neither in perception nor in production. The widely used
Sonority Sequencing Principle (SSP) represents the speech signal as a
sequence of discrete units, where phonological processes are modeled
as symbol manipulating rules that lack a temporal dimension and are
devoid of inherent links to perceptual, motoric or cognitive
processes. The current work aims to change this by outlining a novel
approach for the extraction of continuous entities from acoustic space
in order to model dynamic aspects of phonological perception. It is
used here to advance a functional understanding of sonority as a
universal aspect of prosody that requires pitch-bearing syllables as
the building blocks of speech.

This book argues that sonority is best understood as a measurement of
pitch intelligibility in perception, which is closely linked to
periodic energy in acoustics. It presents a novel principle for
sonority-based determinations of well-formedness – the Nucleus
Attraction Principle (NAP). Two complementary NAP models independently
account for symbolic and continuous representations and they mostly
outperform SSP-based models, demonstrated here with experimental
perception studies and with a corpus study of Modern Hebrew nouns.

This work also includes a description of ProPer (Prosodic Analysis
with Periodic Energy). The ProPer toolbox further exploits the
proposal that periodic energy reflects sonority in order to cover
major topics in prosodic research, such as prominence, intonation and
speech rate. The book is finally concluded with brief discussions on
selected topics: (i) the phonotactic division of labor with respect to
/s/-stop clusters; (ii) the debate about the universality of sonority;
and (iii) the fate of the classic phonetics–phonology dichotomy as it
relates to continuity and dynamics in phonology.

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Written In: English (eng)

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