Pre-stopping is a widespread and usually non-contrastive phenomenon in Australian languages. Contrastive pre-stopping is rare and materials on it are limited. Based partly on original phonetic data, this paper provides evidence that Arabana, a language of northern South Australia, has contrastive pre-stopping of both laterals and nasals. Current analyses of pre-stopping, both contrastive and non-contrastive, model pre-stopped sequences as complex segments, and relate their diachrony to perceptual motivations favouring the enhancement in the discrimination of place oppositions. We provide evidence that pre-stopped sequences in Arabana are best analyzed as heterosyllabic clusters, and that their diachrony centrally involves perceptual motivations favouring the augmentation of phonologically strong constituents, specifically stressed syllables.

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在阿拉巴纳预先停留

Pre-stop 在澳大利亚语言中是一种普遍且通常不具有对比性的现象。对比式预停很少见，其上的材料有限。本文部分基于原始语音数据，证明了南澳大利亚北部的语言阿拉巴纳语具有对比性的侧音和鼻音预塞音。当前对预停止（对比和非对比）的分析将预停止序列建模为复杂片段，并将它们的历时性与有利于增强位置对立区分的知觉动机联系起来。我们提供的证据表明，阿拉巴纳语中的预停止序列最好作为异音节簇进行分析，并且它们的历时性主要涉及有利于增强语音强成分，特别是重读音节的感知动机。