THE /el-/Ã¦l/ MERGER IN AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH: ACOUSTIC AND ARTICULATORY INSIGHTS

ChloÃ© Diskin; Debbie Loakes; Rosey Billington; Hywel Stoakes; Simon Gonzalez; Sam Kirkham

THE /el-/Ã¦l/ MERGER IN AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH: ACOUSTIC AND ARTICULATORY INSIGHTS

ChloÃ© Diskin, Debbie Loakes, Rosey Billington, Hywel Stoakes, Simon Gonzalez, Sam Kirkham

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This paper investigates a merger-in-progress of /e/- /Ã¦/ in prelateral contexts for speakers of Australian English in Victoria. Twelve participants (7F, 5M) were recorded producing a wordlist resulting in acoustic and concurrent articulatory data via stabilised mid-sagittal ultrasound tongue imaging. Focusing on a subset of the data comprising short front vowels /Éª, e, Ã¦/ in /hVt/ and /hVl/ contexts, findings show that there are robust acoustic differences between /e/ and /Ã¦/ preceding /t/, as anticipated. However, individual differences emerge for /e/ and /Ã¦/ preceding /l/, with highly gradient production patterns across the speakers, ranging from speakers who exhibit merger behaviour to those who maintain categorical distinctions. The evidence for merging behaviour across speakers is similar, but does not map directly, across both the acoustic and articulatory data, and illustrates the value of incorporating a range of data types in investigating a merger-in-progress.

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	1764â€“1768
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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Diskin, C., Loakes, D., Billington, R., Stoakes, H., Gonzalez, S., & Kirkham, S. (2019). THE /el-/Ã¦l/ MERGER IN AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH: ACOUSTIC AND ARTICULATORY INSIGHTS. In S. C. P. E. M. T. . P. W. (Ed.), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (Peer Reviewed ed., pp. 1764â€“1768). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc..

Diskin, ChloÃ© ; Loakes, Debbie ; Billington, Rosey et al. / THE /el-/Ã¦l/ MERGER IN AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH: ACOUSTIC AND ARTICULATORY INSIGHTS. Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. editor / S. Calhoun, P. Escudero, M. Tabain, & P. Warren. Peer Reviewed. ed. Melbourne : Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc., 2019. pp. 1764â€“1768

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Diskin, C, Loakes, D, Billington, R, Stoakes, H, Gonzalez, S & Kirkham, S 2019, THE /el-/Ã¦l/ MERGER IN AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH: ACOUSTIC AND ARTICULATORY INSIGHTS. in SCPEMTPW (ed.), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Peer Reviewed edn, Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc., Melbourne, pp. 1764â€“1768, 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, ICPhS 2019, Australia, 1/01/19.

THE /el-/Ã¦l/ MERGER IN AUSTRALIAN ENGLISH: ACOUSTIC AND ARTICULATORY INSIGHTS. / Diskin, ChloÃ©; Loakes, Debbie; Billington, Rosey 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. 1764â€“1768.

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