4 juillet 2016
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Thi Thuy Hien Tran et al., « Syllabe CVC et cycle mandibulaire : une étude articulatoire des asymétries. Le cas du vietnamien », HAL-SHS : linguistique, ID : 10670/1.ncqxtn
CVC syllable and jaw cycle: an articulatory study of asymmetries. The case of Vietnamese. The present paper is part of a project that tries to establish the link between phonological and phonetic asymmetries in syllable structures and more specifically the relationship between characteristics of jaw cycle and the MOP, Maximum Onset Principle, an empirical principle that affects consonantal segments to onset position rather than to coda position. Several previous works on American English have shown evidence of asymmetries within the jaw cycle, which could explain some syllabic structure tendencies, whereas a previous study on French showed a reverse asymmetrical pattern of jaw oscillation. We present here preliminary results on Vietnamese that we discuss in two theoretical frameworks namely Frame/Content Theory and Articulatory Phonology: the first one gives a fundamental role to the jaw in the shape of speech production, whereas the latter assigns a secondary role to the jaw in syllable phonology.