Jason Shaw and collaborators publish paper in JASA-EL

In collaboration with Francesco Burroni (LMU) and Shigeto Kawahara (Keio U.), linguistics faculty member Jason Shaw published a paper in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letters. The paper is titled “Articulatory correlates of consonantal length contrasts: The case of Japanese mimetic geminates”. The paper reports electromagnetic articulography data on long and short consonants in Japanese. To control for lexical factors on articulation, they made use of a productive pattern of emphasizing mimetic words through consonant lengthening. Results indicate that the constellation of articulatory properties distinguishing long and short consonants in Japanese is distinct from how length contrasts are articulated in other well-studied languages, such as Italian.