Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1973

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Trammell, Robert L.

Abstract

The primary purpose of this study was to determine whether the processes of liaison and enchainement, in otherwise phonemically identical pairs, would produce phonetically identical utterances as tested by an auditory discrimination test and a spectrographic analysis of contrasting pairs. In addition, single versus geminate consonants of union and one versus two word utterances with the same phonological structures were compared. While no phonemic distinctions were proven between union by liaison and encha1nement or between one versus two word utterances, results would seem to indicate a phonemic length distinction between single versus geminate consonants. The test items were identified with varying degrees of accuracy depending on the extent to which the paired utterances contrasted in the following ways: 1) length of the consonant of union; 2) length of the vowel preceding union; 3) quality of the vowel preceding union and 4) length of the vowel following union.

Extent

46 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1973.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Identifier

FADT13610

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