Acoustic correlates of the voicing contrast in Lebanese Arabic singleton and geminate stops

Al-Tamimi, Jalal; Khattab, Ghada

doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2018.09.010

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“…(English data were taken from Ahn, 2018a, this collection). Note also that the mean VOT values for alveolar stops in Lebanese Arabic were obtained directly from the authors of Al-Tamimi and Khattab (2018, this collection) and in the original paper, they reported mean VOTs pooled across different places of articulation (8.7 ms for geminates and 5.3 ms for singletons).…”

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“…Al-Tamimi and Khattab (2018, this collection) also examine the effect of voicing contrast on CF0 in Lebanese Arabic along with VOT and other possible correlates. They show that while VOT may play a major role in distinguishing voiced and voiceless stops in both singletons and geminates, CF0 plays a further role in differentiating the voicing contrast in geminates, but not in singletons.…”

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“…Other languages whose voicing contrast has not been fully understood despite the substantial number of their speakers include Brazilian Portuguese (Ahn, 2018a with 8 speakers); Thai (Kirby, 2018 with 12 speakers); Turkish (U Ünal-Logacev, Fuchs & Lancia, 2018 with 6 speakers); and Russian (Kharlamov, 2018 with 60 speakers). Languages that have received even less attention but are covered in this special collection include Lebanese Arabic (Al-Tamimi & Khattab, 2018 with 20 speakers), Vietnamese and Khmer (Kirby, 2018 with 14 speakers each); Yerevan (Eastern) Armenian (Seyfarth & Garellek, 2018 with 8 speakers), and 10 languages (two Iranian, seven Indo-Aryan languages and one isolated one) spoken in India with 48 speakers in total (Hussain, 2018).…”

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Voice onset time and beyond: Exploring laryngeal contrast in 19 languages

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Whalen

Docherty

2019

Journal of Phonetics

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In this special collection entitled Marking 50 Years of Research on Voice Onset Time and the Voicing Contrast in the World’s Languages, we have compiled eleven studies investigating the voicing contrast in 19 languages. The collection provides extensive data obtained from 270 speakers across those languages, examining VOT and other acoustic, aerodynamic and articulatory measures. The languages studied may be divided into four groups: ‘aspirating’ languages with a two-way contrast (English, three varieties of German); ‘true voicing’ languages with a two-way contrast (Russian, Turkish, Brazilian Portuguese, two Iranian languages Pashto and Wakhi); languages with a three-way contrast (Thai, Vietnamese, Khmer, Yerevan Armenia, three Indo-Aryan languages, Dawoodi, Punjabi and Shina, and Burushaki spoken in India); and Indo-Aryan languages with a more than three-way contrast (Jangli and Urdu with a four-way contrast, and Sindhi and Siraiki with a five-way contrast). We discuss the cross-linguistic data, focusing on how much VOT alone tell s us above the voicing contrast in these languages, and what other phonetic dimensions (such as consonant-induced F0 and voice quality) are needed for a complete understanding of laryngeal contrast in these languages. Implications for various issues emerge: universal phonetic feature systems, effects of language contact on linguistic levelling, and the relation between laryngeal contrast and supralaryngeal articulation. The cross-linguistic VOT data also lead us to discuss how the distribution of VOT as measured acoustically may allow us to infer the underlying articulation and how it might be approached in gestural phonologies. The discussion on these multiple issues sparks new questions to be resolved, and provide indications of where the field may be best directed in exploring laryngeal contrast in voicing in the world’s languages.

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Voice onset time and beyond: Exploring laryngeal contrast in 19 languages

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Docherty

2019

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“…However, each of these measures have the potential to be at least a secondary effect for either geminates or ejectives. For instance, in some languages (Italian [15], Japanese [10], Lebanese Arabic [2]), geminates can be produced with tighter adduction of the vocal folds, resulting in a creaky voice quality (i.e. lower spectral tilt) in the surrounding vowels.…”

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Acoustic properties of singleton and geminate ejective stops in Tsova-Tush

Hauk

2018

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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This paper presents an analysis of singleton and geminate ejectives in Tsova-Tush, an understudied Northeast Caucasian language spoken in Zemo Alvani, Georgia. The Tsova-Tush phoneme inventory contrasts ejectives with aspirated stops at four places of articulation: /p' t' k' q'/. Additionally, geminate stops contrast with singletons at two places of articulation: /tʰː t'ː qʰː q'ː/. Geminate ejective stops are cross-linguistically rare phonemes. The goal of this study is therefore to describe the acoustic properties of these stop contrasts, with special attention to the geminate ejectives. Analyzed data included 500 segmented stops from high-quality recordings of six native speakers of Tsova-Tush. The results showed that geminates were significantly longer than singletons in closure duration, but did not differ in VOT. Ejectives had significantly shorter VOT than aspirated stops, as well a difference in f0 and H1*-H2* in the following vowel, but with marked interspeaker variation in the latter measures.

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“…To the best of our knowledge, no published studies have tested VOT_Mean measurements in people with AD in Arabic languages. Nevertheless, some studies have been performed on Arabic databases using the VOT measure for other tasks, such as testing the impact of contrast on F0 (CF0) caused by consonants in Lebanese Arabic [48]. Testing VOT measures on English [48] showed that there was no statistical significance in the differences of people with AD for the early detection of this disease.…”

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Early Detection of Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s Diseases using the VOT_Mean Feature

Kehili

Karim

Cherif

2021

Eng. Technol. Appl. Sci. Res.

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Alzheimer’s (AD) and Parkinson’s diseases (PD) are tw of the most common neurological diseases in the world. Several studies have been conducted on the identification of these diseases using speech and laryngeal disorders. Those symptoms can appear even at the early stages of AD and PD, but not in very specific and prominent ways. Voice Onset Time (VOT) is an acoustic specification of the stopping consonant that is commonly discussed in studies of phonetic perception. In this study, the VOT_Mean feature was explored to identify AD and PD early using /pa/, /ka/, and /ta/ syllables for the diadochokinetic task (DDK). VOT_Mean was calculated as the average of the first and the second VOT values (VOT_1 and VOT_2), corresponding to the second and the penultimate VOT measurement cycles. Experimental tests were performed on Tunisian Arabic and Spanish databases for the early detection of AD and PD respectively. The results showed a very high significance of VOT_Mean on the early detection of AD and PD. Moreover, the best results were achieved using the XGBoost (XGBT) algorithm as a classifier on the VOT_Mean feature.

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Acoustic correlates of the voicing contrast in Lebanese Arabic singleton and geminate stops

Cited by 18 publications

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Voice onset time and beyond: Exploring laryngeal contrast in 19 languages

Voice onset time and beyond: Exploring laryngeal contrast in 19 languages

Acoustic properties of singleton and geminate ejective stops in Tsova-Tush

Early Detection of Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s Diseases using the VOT_Mean Feature

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