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An acoustic investigation of nasal place neutralization in Spanish
Default place assignment and phonetic underspecification
- Author(s): Michael Ramsammy 1
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- Source: Romance Linguistics 2010 , pp 33-48
- Publication Date November 2011
Previous accounts of nasal place neutralization in Spanish have claimed that word-medial nasal codas acquire place features by categorical assimilation, whereas word-final nasals are specified for place by epenthesis of a dialect-particular default value. This paper reports on the results of experimental investigation into the acoustic properties of place neutralized nasals in Spanish. Results confirm that speakers of alveolarizing dialects neutralize word-final nasal place contrasts to [
- Affiliations: 1: University of Manchester
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