{"id":1918,"date":"2024-12-19T17:43:33","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T22:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/?p=1918"},"modified":"2024-12-19T17:44:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T22:44:41","slug":"kpogo-chang-in-jphon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/2024\/12\/19\/kpogo-chang-in-jphon\/","title":{"rendered":"Kpogo &#038; Chang in JPhon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0paper\u00a0entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.wocn.2024.101378\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Coarticulation and coordination in phonological development: Insights from children\u2019s and adults\u2019 production of complex\u2013simplex stop contrasts in G\u00e3&#8221;<\/a> (Kpogo &amp; Chang, 2025) has been published in the <i>Journal of Phonetics<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Abstract<\/span>: Achieving adult-like coarticulation, which relies on precise gestural coordination, is known to be a challenging aspect of phonological development. Unique coordination challenges are posed by doubly articulated stops, typologically uncommon complex consonants that show crosslinguistic variation in their acoustic contrast with simplex (singly articulated) consonants. We examined the acoustics and development of complex\u2013simplex stop contrasts between labio-velars (\/k\u0361p\/, \/\u0261\u0361b\/) and bilabials (\/p\/, \/b\/) in G\u00e3 (Niger-Congo, Kwa), with special attention to coarticulation with adjacent sonorants. We found that G\u00e3 adults mostly produced differences in voice onset time and closure duration to implement these contrasts, and G\u00e3 five-year-olds also produced differences in these dimensions. Crucially, however, five-year-olds also produced significant differences in onset formants, which adults did not. These findings provide evidence of age-graded variation in the implementation of complex\u2013simplex stop contrasts in G\u00e3, suggesting that over the course of development there may be a shift away from production of carryover coarticulatory differences toward greater reliance on durational differences. We argue that children\u2019s initial reliance on carryover coarticulation capitalizes on a tendency toward greater consonant\u2013vowel coarticulation as compared to adults, discussing implications for our understanding of how coarticulation develops.<\/p>\n<p>This study followed Open Science practices, and all materials and data are publicly accessible via the Open Science Framework at <a href=\"https:\/\/osf.io\/qcbrg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/osf.io\/qcbrg\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0paper\u00a0entitled &#8220;Coarticulation and coordination in phonological development: Insights from children\u2019s and adults\u2019 production of complex\u2013simplex stop contrasts in G\u00e3&#8221; (Kpogo &amp; Chang, 2025) has been published in the Journal of Phonetics. Abstract: Achieving adult-like coarticulation, which relies on precise gestural coordination, is known to be a challenging aspect of phonological development. Unique coordination challenges are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10698,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,13,3,6],"tags":[18,22,105,20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10698"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1919,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918\/revisions\/1919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}