An Ultrasound Investigation of Secondary Velarization in Russian

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dc.contributor.authorLitvin, Natallia
dc.contributor.supervisorBird, Sonya Frances
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-25T20:04:03Z
dc.date.available2014-07-25T20:04:03Z
dc.date.copyright2014en_US
dc.date.issued2014-07-25
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Linguistics
dc.degree.departmentSchool of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe present study aims to resolve previous disputes about whether or not non-palatalized consonants exhibit secondary velarization in Russian, and if so what this corresponds to articulatorily. Three questions are asked: 1) are Russian non-palatalized consonants velarized or not? If so, 2) what are the articulatory properties of velarization? and 3) how is the presence or absence of secondary velarization affected by adjacent vowels? To answer these questions, laryngeal and lingual ultrasound investigations were conducted on a range of non-palatalized consonants across different vowel contexts. The results of the study show that 1) Russian non-palatalized consonants are not pharyngealized in the sense of Esling (1996, 1999, 2005), 2) /l/ and /f/ are uvularized, 3) /s/ and /ʂ/ can feature either uvularization or velarization. The study also shows that secondary articulations of Russian non-palatalized consonants are inherent rather than dependent on vowel context.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0290en_US
dc.description.proquestemailnatallia@uvic.caen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/5483
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/*
dc.subjectRussianen_US
dc.subjectsecondary velarizationen_US
dc.subjectuvularizationen_US
dc.subjectpharyngealizationen_US
dc.subjectlingual and laryngeal ultrasounden_US
dc.titleAn Ultrasound Investigation of Secondary Velarization in Russianen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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