MIEJSCE ARTYKULACJI POLSKIEJ SPÓŁGŁOSKI BOCZNEJ. BADANIE Z WYKORZYSTANIEM ARTYKULOGRAFII ELEKTROMAGNETYCZNEJ
The place of articulation of the Polish lateral. A study using electromagnetic articulography

Summary/Abstract: The fi rst part of this paper presents the lateral consonant in the classifi catory framework of the International Phonetic Association (IPA). The concept of the lateral approximant is defi ned on the basis of the sound’s articulatory features and its most frequent variants occurring in various languages of the world. In this context, the results of instrumental phonetic research on the Polish lateral are discussed. The remainder of the paper reports on a study of the Polish lateral that was conducted by the authors with the use the electro-magnetic articulograph (EMA), a technique which had never been used before in the description of this Polish sound. The report contains details of the speakers recorded for the purpose of the study, the examined language material, the articulograph, as well as the criteria of articulatory segmentation and analysis. The results of the investigation show that the place of articulation of the Polish lateral was postalveolar in 65.71% and alveolar in 35.29% of the analysed cases. The concluding part of the paper confronts the obtained data with the state of research on the place of articulation of Polish /l/.

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