Zoltán G. Kiss

• PhD in linguistics, 2008
• Professor (Associate) at Eötvös Loránd University

The present paper investigates the link between perception and production in the laryngeal phonology of multilingual speakers, focusing on non-contrastive segments and the dynamic aspect of these processes. Fourteen L1 Hungarian, L2 English, and L3 Spanish advanced learners took part in the experiments. The production experiments examined the aspir...

This study investigates how postlexical phonological processes are acquired in multilingual speech, namely, how learners cope with conflicting demands in the production and perception of the voicing patterns in their non-native languages, what impact lexical knowledge has on learner behavior, and to what extent existing speech learning models can a...

This paper explores to what extent lexical factors, such as minimal pairhood and wordedness, affect the realisation of laryngeal features of the word-final fricatives /s/ and /z/ in Hungarian in potentially neutralising contexts, and whether the observed acoustic differences are perceptually salient enough to distinguish underlying voicing in non-m...

It has been long acknowledged that the perception and production of speech is affected by the presence or absence of higher levels of linguistic information, too. The recoverability of meaning heavily relies on semantic context, similarly, the precision of articulation is inversely proportional to the presence of semantic information. The present s...

This paper studies the contextual variation in the voicing properties of three-consonant clusters (CC#C) in Hungarian. We investigate the velar+alveolar stop clusters /kt/ and /ɡd/, and the alveolar fricative+stop clusters /st/ and /zd/ in potentially voicing-neutralising and assimilating contexts. We show that in these contexts, regressive voicing...

In this paper, we study the phonetic properties of three-consonant clusters (CC#C) in Slovak. More precisely, we will investigate the laryngeal properties of the velar–alveolar stop clusters /kt/ and /ɡd/, and the alveolar fricative–stop clusters /st/ and /zd/ in word-final position when followed by a voiced or a voiceless obstruent, or a sonorant...

This article presents two acoustic experiments in which we demonstrate that voiced fricatives in utterance-final position in Hungarian are realized unphonated and the preceding vowel plays a crucial role in partial contrast preservation between the phonologically voiced and phonologically voiceless fricative. We also show that despite their very si...

The seemingly odd phonological behavior of the voiced labiodental fricative v in many unrelated languages like Russian (Padgett 2002), Hebrew (Barkaï and Horvath 1978) and Hungarian (Siptár 1996; Siptár and Törkenczy 2000), just to mention a few, has attracted considerable attention in the phonological literature. With respect to Hungarian, most at...

The present article describes an acoustic study and a perception experiment that investigate the contrast of the fricatives f–v after sonorant consonants in word-final position in Hungarian. In earlier work (e.g. Kiss & Bárkányi 2006) we found that in this context Hungarian v is mostly realized unphonated with considerable frication noise. The pres...

'A fonológia és a morfológia analógia-alapú formális megközelítése' c. kutatás célja az volt, hogy szemben a generatív nyelvtanban (levezetéses változat vagy optimalitáselmélet) általánosan alkalmazott szabály-, vagy megszorítás?alapú elemzéssel, olyan megközelítéseket, elemzéseket dolgozzunk ki és alkalmazzunk a magyar morfológiára és fonológiára,...

We propose a unified, surface-based functionalist analysis of the phonol- ogy of Hungarian v, which is shown to fare better than past generative formalist/ representational models. The model introduced can account for the two-fold pat- terning of v with respect to voicing assimilation without evoking exceptional means. Furthermore, it can also expl...

Ebben a dolgozatban a v felszíni megjelenésével, fonetikai tulajdonságaival, valamint közvetlen környezetének fonetikai tulajdonságaival kíséreljük megmagyarázni kétarcú zöngésségi viselkedését és az eloszlását. Hipotézisünk kiindulópontja a v artikulációs célpontjainak ellentmondó aerodinamikai tulajdonságain alapul. Az ellentmondó artikulációs cé...

The paper suggests that the phonotactics of languages often displays gradual, non-categorical patterns, in the sense that not all possible combinations are grammatical along the various dimensions of segmental contrast. The graduality of phonotactics is a property that will be shown to be better explained by models that employ perception-based func...