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- Title
The phonetics and phonology of Dutch mid vowels before /l/.
- Authors
Botma, Bert; Sebregts, Koen; Smakman, Dick
- Abstract
This paper addresses the claim that Dutch /l/ triggers laxing of preceding tense mid vowels (/e ø o/), and that this leads to a phonetic length contrast between tense and lax vowels, e.g., tense speel [spɪːɫ] 'play' vs. lax spil [spɪɫ] 'pivot'. The production experiment reported in this paper shows that this claim is incorrect. We find instead that /l/ triggers retraction of both tense and lax mid vowels, which leads neither to complete neutralization of quality nor to complete neutralization of length.
- Subjects
PHONOLOGY; PHONETICS; VOWELS; DUTCH language; TENSE (Grammar)
- Publication
Laboratory Phonology, 2012, Vol 3, Issue 2, p273
- ISSN
1868-6346
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/lp-2012-0015