Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20594
Title: Is diachronic lenition a factor in the asymmetry in intelligibility between Danish and Swedish?
Contributor(s): van Ommen, Sandrien (author); Hendriks, Petra (author); Gilbers, Dicky (author); van Heuven, Vincent (author); Gooskens, Charlotte  (author)
Publication Date: 2013
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2013.09.009
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20594
Abstract: In this study, we investigate whether diachronic lenition is a factor in the previously found asymmetry in intelligibility between Danish and Swedish. Due to the historical process of consonantal lenition in Danish, the aspiration distinction between intervocalic, originally long, stops has disappeared. In two experiments, we tested the hypothesis that the absence of this distinction in Danish but not in Swedish results in better comprehension of Swedish intervocalic stops by Danish listeners than of Danish intervocalic stops by Swedish listeners. Our production experiment confirmed, not surprisingly, that there is no contrast for intervocalic stops in Danish, whereas there is one in Swedish. However, our perception experiment revealed that Danish listeners were not better in their perception of words with Swedish intervocalic stops than Swedish listeners were in their perception of words with Danish intervocalic stops. Contrary to the expectations of exemplar dynamics, in cross-language perception listeners did not always use their native categories in their perception of sounds of the non-native language and sometimes adjusted their native segment category boundaries to the values of the non-native language.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Lingua, v.137, p. 193-213
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Place of Publication: Netherlands
ISSN: 1872-6135
0024-3841
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 200310 Other European Languages
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 470319 Other European languages
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 950201 Communication Across Languages and Culture
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 130201 Communication across languages and culture
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
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School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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