Planting the seed for sound change: Evidence from real-time MRI of velum 
kinematics in German

Carignan, C.; Coretta, S.; Frahm, J.; Frahm, J.; Harrington, J.; Hoole, P.; Joseph, A. A.; Kunay, E.; Voit, D.

doi:10.1353/lan.2021.0020

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Planting the seed for sound change: Evidence from real-time MRI of velum kinematics in German

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Frahm, J.
Research Group of Biomedical NMR, MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Max Planck Society;

Joseph, A. A.
Research Group of Biomedical NMR, MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Max Planck Society;

Voit, D.
Research Group of Biomedical NMR, MPI for Biophysical Chemistry, Max Planck Society;

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Carignan, C., Coretta, S., Frahm, J., Frahm, J., Harrington, J., Hoole, P., et al. (2021). Planting the seed for sound change: Evidence from real-time MRI of velum kinematics in German. Language, 97(2), 333-364. doi:10.1353/lan.2021.0020.

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Velum movement signals generated from real-time magnetic resonance imaging videos of thirty-five German speakers were used to investigate the physiological conditions that might promote sound change involving the development of contrastive vowel nasality. The results suggest that, in comparison to when a nasal consonant precedes a voiced obstruent, the velum gesture associated with a nasal consonant preceding a voiceless obstruent undergoes gestural rescaling and temporal rephasing. This further suggests that the diachronic development of contrastive vowel nasality comprises two stages: the first stage involves gestural shortening and realignment, while the second stage involves a trading relationship between source and effect.