Consonantal and vocalic gestures in the articulation of the Italian glides /j/ and /w/ at different syllable positions

Authors

  • Lorenzo Ciaurelli Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, Roma
  • Aravind Namasivayam University of Toronto, Oral Dynamics Lab, Toronto, Canada
  • Graziano Tisato Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione (ISTC), C.N.R. di Padova
  • Pascal Van Lieshout University of Toronto, Oral Dynamics Lab, Toronto, Canada
  • Claudio Zmarich Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione (ISTC), C.N.R. di Padova e Dipartimento di Neuroscienze, Università di Padova, Padova

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17469/O2102AISV000020

Keywords:

glides, kinematics, articulatory features, diphthong

Abstract

From a phonological point of view, four glides (or approximants) exist in Italian: /j/, /w/, [i̯] and [u̯]. Glides still raise a lot of questions, from the definition of the necessary and sufficient features for their identification (Chitoran, Nevins, 2008), to their characterization at the acoustic and articulatory levels of speech production (Gick, 2003). In this paper, in order to describe the articulatory features of Italian glides, we analyzed the kinematics of both consonantal and vocalic gestures involved in the production of /j/ and /w/, by using 3D electromagnetic articulography (EMA; Carstens Medizinelektronik GmbH). The results show similar articulatory features for both glides in the way they differentiate themselves from corresponding vowels [i] and [u].

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Published

31-12-2016

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