Articulatory Correlates of the Voicing Contrast in German

How is the voicing contrast in German realised with respect to its laryngeal and supralaryngeal articulation and their coordination? This book offers a comprehensive overview of the underlying articulatory mechanisms and their corresponding acoustics with a particular focus on differences in various word and stress positions. It provides the first data on glottal opening occurring in word final position, where the phonological rule of final devoicing should apply. The results are discussed in light of the phonetics-phonology-interface, the use of phonological terminology, the role of timing, inter-articulatory coordination and stress.

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Susanne Fuchs studied Psychology, Speech Science and Drama in Jena, Heidelberg and Berlin. She obtained her PhD at QMUC in Edinburgh (Scotland) in 2005. The main interest of her work is to link phonetics, phonology and motor control in order to understand general biological principles shaping sound production.