Rhotic contrasts in Arabana

Michael Carne; Juqiang Chen; Ellison Luk; Sydney Strangways; Clara Stockigt; Robert Mailhammer; Mark Harvey

Rhotic contrasts in Arabana

Michael Carne, Juqiang Chen, Ellison Luk, Sydney Strangways, Clara Stockigt, Robert Mailhammer, Mark Harvey

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Abstract

Arabana has a three-way rhotic phoneme contrast: /r/ (alveolar trill) vs /ɾ/ (alveolar tap) vs /ɻ/ (retroflex continuant). The rhotic contrasts are prosodically restricted in Arabana. The triple contrast only appears following the tonic vowel, which is the first vowel. In other onset positions /ɻ/ is contrastive, but there is no /r/ vs /ɾ/ contrast. There is no contrast in coda positions. We undertook the first-ever production study of Arabana rhotics. Recorded audio materials were independently coded in PRAAT by two trained transcribers. We found the following allophony: /r/ [r, ɾ, ɹ]; /ɾ/ [ɾ, ɹ], /ɻ/ [ɻ]. The /r/ vs /ɾ/ contrast is thus negatively determined, /r/ permits [r] realizations, but /ɾ/ does not. The commonest realization of both /r/ and /ɾ/ is [ɹ]. The phoneme in neutralized coda position is /r/. The high degree of overlap in realizations between /r/ and /ɾ/ accords with reported perception difficulties.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
Editors	S. Calhoun, P. Escudero, M. Tabain, & P. Warren
Place of Publication	Melbourne
Publisher	Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc.
Pages	1278-1282
Edition	Peer Reviewed
ISBN (Print)	978-0-646-80069-1
Publication status	Published - 2019
Event	19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, ICPhS 2019 - Melbourne, Australia, Australia Duration: 1 Jan 2019 → … https://www.icphs2019.org/

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Conference	19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, ICPhS 2019
Country/Territory	Australia
Period	1/01/19 → …
Other	Aug 5-9 2019
Internet address	https://www.icphs2019.org/

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Carne, M, Chen, J, Luk, E, Strangways, S, Stockigt, C, Mailhammer, R & Harvey, M 2019, Rhotic contrasts in Arabana. in SCPEMTPW (ed.), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Peer Reviewed edn, Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc., Melbourne, pp. 1278-1282, 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, ICPhS 2019, Australia, 1/01/19.

Rhotic contrasts in Arabana. / Carne, Michael; Chen, Juqiang; Luk, Ellison et al.
Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. ed. / S. Calhoun, P. Escudero, M. Tabain, & P. Warren. Peer Reviewed. ed. Melbourne: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc., 2019. p. 1278-1282.

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