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  • Synchronic evidence of a diachronic change: Voicing and duration in French and Spanish stop-liquid clusters

  • Laura Colantoni, Jeffrey Steele
  • Journal:
    Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique / Volume 56 / Issue 2 / July 2011
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    27 June 2016, pp. 147-177

  • This article investigates the role that the phonetic parameters of duration and voicing play in shaping asymmetric patterns of Romance stop-liquid cluster realization. Based on acoustic analysis of experimental data from Quebec French and Argentine Spanish, we demonstrate the existence of an asymmetry in the proportional duration of the stop and a following epenthetic vowel or lateral: sonorants are shorter after voiceless stops in stop-liquid clusters. Rhotics do not participate in this process. The Spanish tap does not vary significantly in length, and the French dorsal fricative is longer in voiceless clusters. We propose that compensatory adjustments of the following sonorant are the result of the interaction of coarticulatory constraints, both universal (shorter sonorants after voiceless stops or fricatives) and language-specific (voicing in dorsal fricatives in French). Parallels are drawn between the synchronic variation attested and well-known patterns of diachronic change in Romance.