Phonetic correlates of laryngeal and place contrasts of Burushaski

Hussain, Qandeel

doi:10.1016/j.specom.2020.11.001

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“…F0, spectral tilt, and CPP measures have been primarily used for investigating the laryngeal contrasts (Kirby 2018a;Kirby and Hyslop 2019;Lee and Kawahara 2018;Seyfarth and Garellek 2018). However, their usage for the characterization of rich place contrasts is not widely explored (Hussain 2021;Misnadin and Kirby 2020). Lai et al (2009) observed minor but significant effects of place on F0 onsets in Taiwanese.…”

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“…3 Some studies have also observed the effect of aspiration on F0 onsets but there appears to be inconsistency in the reported results. Voiceless unaspirated stops of Burushaski (Hussain 2021), Cantonese, Mandarin (Luo et al 2016), Kalasha (Hussain and Mielke 2020), Marathi (Dmitrieva and Dutta 2020), and Shanghai Chinese (Chen 2011) showed higher F0 onsets than voiceless aspirated stops. In contrast, voiceless unaspirated stops of Chru (Brunelle et al 2020), Madurese (Misnadin 2016), and Thai (Shimizu 1989) entailed lower F0 onsets than voiceless aspirated stops.…”

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Fundamental Frequency and Phonation Differences in the Production of Stop Laryngeal Contrasts of Endangered Shina

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2021

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Shina is an endangered Indo-Aryan (Dardic) language spoken in Gilgit, Northern Pakistan. The present study investigates the acoustic correlates of Shina’s three-way stop laryngeal contrast across five places of articulation. A wide range of acoustic correlates were measured including fundamental frequency (F0), spectral tilt (H1*-H2*, H1*-A1*, H1*-A2*, and H1*-A3*), and cepstral peak prominence (CPP). Voiceless aspirated stops were characterized by higher fundamental frequency, spectral tilt, and cepstral peak prominence, compared to voiceless unaspirated and voiced unaspirated stops. These results suggest that Shina is among those languages which have a raising effect of aspiration on the pitch and spectral tilt onsets of the following vowels. Positive correlations among fundamental frequency, spectral tilt, and cepstral peak prominence were observed. The findings of this study will contribute to the phonetic documentation of endangered Dardic languages.

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Fundamental Frequency and Phonation Differences in the Production of Stop Laryngeal Contrasts of Endangered Shina

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2021

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“…Recent research stress the need to analyze multiple acoustic properties, as contrasts appear to be distinguished by a combination of parameters, for example, not just Voice Onset Time (VOT), since fundamental frequency and spectral tilt of the following vowel may differ according to consonant type (Kirby 2018, Cho, Whalen & Docherty 2019). In fact, all three phonetic properties have been used to effectively analyze stops in various places of articulation, including bilabial and dental, in Burushaski (Hussain 2021). Since we consider implosives to be nonexplosive stops, it may be that a combination of correlates is employed for contrast discrimination in bilabial (im)plosives.…”

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The acoustic characteristics of implosive and plosive bilabials in Shimaore

Mori¹

2023

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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Implosive consonants have drawn the attention of researchers over time, partially due to their relative rarity in the world’s languages, and partially due to their unique ingressive air flow. This sound category has varying complex features from an articulatory and acoustic perspective. This study explores the sound category by analyzing the acoustic features of a language whose implosives have yet to be acoustically considered: Shimaore, a Bantu-Sabaki language spoken in Mayotte. Specifically, it compares the bilabial plosive /b/ and the bilabial implosive /ɓ/ in terms of Voice Onset Time (VOT), fundamental frequency, amplitude, and voice quality via H1*–H2*, harmonics-to-noise ratios (HNR), and cepstral peak prominence (CPP). Analyses show that VOT is shorter for implosives than for plosives. At oral closure and vowel onset, amplitude and f0 are higher than plosives. H1*–H2* values read alongside HNR and CPP values suggest that implosives in Shimaore have glottal constriction. Some individual differences are explored for question of variation in implosives. Implications regarding sociophonetic studies in Mayotte as well as general implications for implosives are discussed.

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Acoustic classification of coronal stops of Eastern Punjabi

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Kochetov

2021

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Punjabi is an Indo-Aryan language which contrasts a rich set of coronal stops at dental and retroflex places of articulation across three laryngeal configurations. Moreover, all these stops occur contrastively in various positions (word-initially, -medially, and -finally). The goal of this study is to investigate how various coronal place and laryngeal contrasts are distinguished acoustically both within and across word positions. A number of temporal and spectral correlates were examined in data from 13 speakers of Eastern Punjabi: Voice Onset Time, release and closure durations, fundamental frequency, F1-F3 formants, spectral center of gravity and standard deviation, H1*-H2*, and cepstral peak prominence. The findings indicated that higher formants and spectral measures were most important for the classification of place contrasts across word positions, whereas laryngeal contrasts were reliably distinguished by durational and voice quality measures. Word-medially and -finally, F2 and F3 of the preceding vowels played a key role in distinguishing the dental and retroflex stops, while spectral noise measures were more important word-initially. The findings of this study contribute to a better understanding of factors involved in the maintenance of typologically rare and phonetically complex sets of place and laryngeal contrasts in the coronal stops of Indo-Aryan languages.

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Phonetic correlates of laryngeal and place contrasts of Burushaski

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Fundamental Frequency and Phonation Differences in the Production of Stop Laryngeal Contrasts of Endangered Shina

Fundamental Frequency and Phonation Differences in the Production of Stop Laryngeal Contrasts of Endangered Shina

The acoustic characteristics of implosive and plosive bilabials in Shimaore

Acoustic classification of coronal stops of Eastern Punjabi

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