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Roettger, T. B., Winter, B., Grawunder, S., Kirby, J. and Grice, Martine ORCID: 0000-0003-4973-4059 (2014). Assessing incomplete neutralization of final devoicing in German. J. Phon., 43. S. 11 - 26. LONDON: ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD. ISSN 0095-4470

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Abstract

It has been claimed that the long established neutralization of the voicing distinction in domain final position in German is phonetically incomplete. However, many studies that have advanced this claim have subsequently been criticized on methodological grounds, calling incomplete neutralization into question. In three production experiments and one perception experiment we address these methodological criticisms. In the first production study, we address the role of orthography. In a large scale auditory task using pseudowords, we confirm that neutralization is indeed incomplete and suggest that previous null results may simply be due to lack of statistical power. In two follow-up production studies (Experiments 2 and 3), we rule out a potential confound of Experiment 1, namely that the effect might be due to accommodation to the presented auditory stimuli, by manipulating the duration of the preceding vowel. While the between-items design (Experiment 2) replicated the findings of Experiment 1, the between-subjects version (Experiment 3) failed to find a statistically significant incomplete neutralization effect, although we found numerical tendencies in the expected direction. Finally, in a perception study (Experiment 4), we demonstrate that the subphonemic differences between final voiceless and devoiced stops are audible, but only barely so. Even though the present findings provide evidence for the robustness of incomplete neutralization in German, the small effect sizes highlight the challenges of investigating this phenomenon. We argue that without necessarily postulating functional relevance, incomplete neutralization can be accounted for by recent models of lexical organization. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Roettger, T. B. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Winter, B. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Grawunder, S. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Kirby, J. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Grice, Martine UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-4973-4059 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-445444
DOI:	10.1016/j.wocn.2014.01.002
Journal or Publication Title:	J. Phon.
Volume:	43
Page Range:	S. 11 - 26
Date:	2014
Publisher:	ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
Place of Publication:	LONDON
ISSN:	0095-4470
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 1: Kunstgeschichte, Musikwissenschaft, Medienkultur und Theater, Linguistik, IDH > Institut für Linguistik > Phonetik
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language PHONOLOGICAL REPRESENTATION; SPEECH; PERCEPTION; CONVERGENCE; ACTIVATION; FREQUENCY; VOICE Multiple languages Linguistics; Language & Linguistics Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/44544