Abstract
Phonetic/phonological analytic techniques are applied to an unusual method of speaking developed by an English-speaking patient with the Munchausen syndrome. This patient's phonetic output was restricted to vowels, nonlateral voiced approximants, and the glottal stop. An analysis of this class of sounds, especially the glottal stop, is provided from the points of view of articulatory phonetics and segmental/autosegmental generative phonology. The preferred solution is seen to require the articulatory definitions of the manner features (Halle and Clements, 1983) - [sonorant], [continuant] - and the source features (Halle and Stevens, 1971) - [spread], [constricted], [stiff], [slack] - as well as the multitiered representations in autosegmental theory (Goldsmith, 1979).
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 167-178 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1988 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Research was supported in part by NTH grant NS-24539 awarded to the first author. Thanks to Hugh Buckingham, Larry Leonard and Ronnie Wilbur for helpful comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript, and to David Jackson for assistance with phonetic transcription.
Funding
Research was supported in part by NTH grant NS-24539 awarded to the first author. Thanks to Hugh Buckingham, Larry Leonard and Ronnie Wilbur for helpful comments on an earlier draft of this manuscript, and to David Jackson for assistance with phonetic transcription.
| Funders | Funder number |
|---|---|
| NTH | NS-24539 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Language and Linguistics
- Linguistics and Language
- Speech and Hearing