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Sound Structures Publications in Language Sciences Publications in Language Sciences is a series of monographs in theoretical linguistics and its more formal satellite fields of scientific inquiry. It is intended to provide an opportunity for scholars working within these areas to report rapidly on research either terminated or in some definite stage of progress. Ideally, in these publications interest, inspiration, and openmindness go hand in hand. Ger J. de Haan Leo Wetzeis Wim Zonneveld editors Other books in this series: 1. W. Zonneveld and F. Weerman Linguistics in the Netherlands 1977-1979 2. G. de Haan Conditions on Rules 3. T. Hoekstra, H. v.d. Hulst and M. Moortgat Lexical Grammar 4. P. Kiparsky Explanation in Phonology 5. A.J. Vitale Swahili Syntax 6. R.M. Martin Logico-Linguistic Papers 7. S. Dik Functional Grammar 8. L.White Grammatical Theory and Language Acquisition 9. S.Strauss Lexicalist Phonology of English and German 10. M.C. Shapiro and H.F. Schiffman Language and Society in South Asia 11. Simon C. Dik Advances in Functional Grammar 12. H. Bennis and W.U.S. van Lessen Kloeke Linguistics in the Netherlands 1963 Studies for Antonie Cohen Sound Structures Edited by Marcel van den Broecke Vincent van Heuven Wim Zonneveld ¥ 1983 FORIS PUBLICATIONS Dordrecht - Holland/Cinnaminson - U.S.A. Published by: Foris Publications Holland P.O. Box 509 3300 AM Dordrecht, The Netherlands Sole distributor for the U.S.A. and Canada: Foris Publications U.S.A. P.O. Box C-50 Cinnaminson N.J. 08077 U.S.A. ISBN 90 70176 93 9 ©1983 Foris Publications - Dordrecht. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission from the copyright owner. Printed in the Netherlands by ICG Printing, Dordrecht. Preface The year 1983 marks the fifteenth anniversary of Antonie Cohen's appoint- ment as a professor at the University of Utrecht, and so closely approxi- mates his sixtieth birthday that we felt a Festschrift to be appropriate. Rather than dwelling upon Cohen's merits and qualities as a scientist and a person, for which we refer to Schultink's contribution to this volume, we will restrict ourselves to a brief motivation of the composition of this volume. We have approached those of Cohen's colleagues who have published with him in the past or more recently. We have also invited his former and current students, insofar as they are still engaged in the fields of phonetics, phonology, or both. Most of these have finished their doctoral dissertation or are about to do so. Accordingly, this volume provides a cross-section of Cohen's professional interests, and reflects his influence upon his scientific environment. We feel privileged to have known Antonie Cohen as a teacher, and express the hope that this collection of papers will be read by him with as much interest as we had in reading his work. Marcel P.R. van den Broecke Vincent J. van Heuven Wim Zonneveld Contents Preface V Antonie Cohen as a Phonetician and a Linguist. H. Schultink IX Publications by Antonie Cohen Compiled by Marcel P.R. van den Broecke XXI 1 Effects of Voice Adaptation on Word Recognition C.W. van Baien 1 2 Wolfgang von Kempelen's Speaking Machine as a Performer Marcel P.R. van den Broecke 9 3 Echoes on Speech Transmission Lines Jan. P.L. Brök χ 21 4 The Perceptual Relevance of the Formant Trajectories in Dutch Diphthongs Rene Collier and Hans 't Hart 31 5 Some Observations on Assimilation of Voicing in German and Dutch Wim A. van Dommelen 47 6 Quality and Quantity in English by Dutchmen: Two Parameters inducing Double Dutch Ben A.G. Elsendoorn 57 7 Language Universals, Language Individuality, and Linguistic Relati- vity in the Works of Etsko Kruisinga Arthur J. van Essen 71 8 The Acoustic Manifestation of Stress in Danish with Particular Reference to the Reduction of Stress in Compounds Eli Fischer-j0rgensen 81 9 Aspects of a Model of Speech Production: Evidence from Speech Errors Victoria A. Fromkin 105 10 Ways of Accentuation in Monotonous Electrolaryngeal Speech: A Pilot Investigation Rob C. van Geel 113 VIII Contents 11 Acquisition of Consonant Clusters. Deborah Günzburger 121 12 Distinctive Feature Constraints on Speech Errors Jadranka Gvozdanovic 129 13 Rise Time and Duration of Friction Noise as Perceptual Cues in the Affricate-Fricative Contrast in English Vincent J. van Heuven 141 14 Systematics in Vowel Systems Florien J. Koopmans-van Beinum 159 15 Syntax and Assimilation of Voice in Dutch Marijke Loots 173 16 Is Speech Production controlled by Speech Perception? Sieb G. Nooteboom 183 17 Preserved Mispronunciations and the Interpretation of Results obtai- ned in a Shadowing Task Ingrid Β. Ottevanger 195 18 Perceptual Evaluation of some Proposed Models of Intonation Jan-Roelof de Pijper 205 19 Intelligibility of Dutch and English Numbers under Reduced Liste- ning Conditions J.C.T. Ringeling 217 20 Perception of Plosive Consonants. Marten E.H. Schouten and Louis C.W. Pols 227 21 Assimilation of Voice in Relation to Voice Quality Iman H. Slis 245 22 Phonological Properties of the Dutch Velar Nasal Mieke Trommelen 259 23 The Perception of Sentence Accent in the Perspective of Speech Processing. M. Vingerling 271 24 Towards an Objective Course in English Intonation: Standardized Precepts Nico Willems 281 25 Lexical and Phonological Properties of Dutch Voicing Assimilation Wim Zonneveld 297 Tabula Gratulatoria 313 Antonie Cohen as a Phonetician and a Linguist A Personal Impression H. Schultink Institute of General Linguistics (Instituut A. W. de Groot) Utrecht University On 1 November 1967 Antonie Cohen was appointed full professor in English linguistics at the University of Utrecht.* This appointment was the cause of much controversy in the chicken-run of Dutch English scholarship. On the one hand, no one doubted Cohen's scientific skill, but on the other, the inner circle of the Dutch scholars of English linguistics found it hard to recognize in him a true colleague-to-be. In any case he was simply not considered one of their number, and even his 1952 doctoral thesis The Phonemes of English, supervised by the well-known Amsterdam linguist Anton Reichling and awarded cum laude, was apparently outside the scope of the contemporary study of English in the Netherlands. This was the time that there was still a true abyss between the worlds of the language- specific and the more theoretical study of language. Although it must be granted that Cohen's earlier work was inclined towards the study of phonetics and the Dutch language, it was impressive both in quality and size to an extent that was approached by none of the contemporary Dutch professors of English linguistics. What was this body of publications by Cohen? One cannot, of course, do full justice here to the nearly thirty publications, including book- reviews, which he wrote until 1967 - partly as a co-author -, and the nearly twentyfive that were to follow later. I will make, therefore, a doubtlessly subjective selection, and propose to focus first on the not strictly phonetic parts of his opus. The Phonemes of English was published in 1952 as Cohen's first publi- cation. It is hard to maintain that it was heaped with praise in international circles, although noone surpassed George L. Trager (1953: 564-6). In a review of one page and a half in Language he did little else than call the author to task for a supposedly philosophical rather than scientific method, and for the audacity to arrive at results different from Trager and Smith for American English one year earlier.1 * I am very grateful to Wim Zonneveld and Marcel van den Broecke for various forms of assistance. 1. O'Connor (1957: 102-3), on the other hand, is quite positive.
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