Dec 13
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Whang:2018
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"Imai (2010) found that while younger speakers did tend to devoice
more, this was only true for men. Young female speakers were actually
shown to devoice the least among all age groups."
-> It's interesting to think what this phonetic "polarization" could
look like taken to the extreme. Could the language reach a point where
males and females follow different phonotactic rules or even have
different phonemic inventories?

The study uses phonotactic predictability as a measure for
recoverability. Are there alternative metrics or experimental setups
that could also capture this phenomenon?

All tokens were placed in sentences of varying lengths. Care was taken
to avoid the tokens being placed right before or after major phrasal
boundaries/ However, can we say with certainty that the position in
the sentence did not confound the results since the position of a word
in a sentence affects coarticulation?

Could you please explain the steps taken to measure COG and how do
they work? For example, the sound files were high pass filtered at 400
Hz to mitigate the effects of f0. How does that help

(More of a comment than a question) Since there is an ongoing change
in the rounding of the high back vowel wouldn't be beneficial to have
participants of older age to see how COG differs?

Recoverability-driven coarticulation: Can you elaborate on the
correlation between devoicing in young, male speakers and a lack
thereof for young, female speakers?  What are the sociolinguistic
implications of this gendered speech pattern?