Stop consonants in Yanyuwa and Yindjibarndi: locus equation data

Tabain, Marija; Butcher, Andrew

doi:10.1006/jpho.1999.0099

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“…This reaches the limits on stop contrasts based only on place (Ladefoged & Maddieson 1996). In Tabain & Butcher (1999), we speculated that languages with multiple places of articulation have recourse to multiple cues, both temporal and spectral, to aid the listener in identifying the consonant. We might now add 'VC transition' to the list which contains CV transition, stop burst, F2 & F3 at closure and release, closure duration, transition duration, etc.…”

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VC vs. CV syllables: a comparison of Aboriginal languages with English

Tabain¹,

Breen

Butcher³

2004

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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Traditionally, phonological theory has held that the CV syllable is the basic syllable type across the world's languages. Recently however, Breen & Pensalfini (1999) have challenged the primacy of the CV syllable in phonological theory with data from Arrernte, an Aboriginal language spoken in central Australia. In this study, we set out to see if there is any acoustic phonetic basis to Breen & Pensalfini's claim. We examine real-word data from one speaker of Arrernte, five speakers of English, and three speakers each of Yanyuwa and Yindjibarndi (these are two other Aboriginal languages). Using F2 and F3 measures of the consonant, and locus equation measures, we find that CV does show more stability than VC in the English speakers' data, but that for the Aboriginal language speakers' data, there is a parity between the CV and VC measures. We suggest that this greater parity may be a necessary constraint on languages which have multiple places of articulation (six in the case of the Aboriginal languages studied here). We propose an alternative view of suprasegmental organization, and we suggest that more work is needed in order to understand the phonetic bases of suprasegmental structure.

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“…The original data were transferred onto SUN workstations at a sampling rate of 16 kHz. The data were labelled by the first author using WAVES+ and are the same data as were used in the Tabain & Butcher (1999) study.…”

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VC vs. CV syllables: a comparison of Aboriginal languages with English

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Breen

Butcher³

2004

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“…As a result, dorsals are spectrally similar to the adjacent vowels (Keating 1996, p. 54;Keating and Lahiri 1993;Tabain and Butcher 1999). As for [h], the shape of the vocal tract during the production of [h] is simply the interpolation of the surrounding vowels (Keating 1988), and thus the neighboring vowels' oral articulation determines the distribution of energy in the spectrum during [h].…”

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Half rhymes in Japanese rap lyrics and knowledge of similarity

Kawahara

2007

J East Asian Linguist

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“…Coronal stops have been claimed to exhibit high resistance to coarticulation (Tabain and Butcher 1999;Butcher and Tabain 2004) and, conversely, to exert strong acoustic effects on neighbouring vowels, in particular the open/low vowel /a/, which also provides the largest tongue/jaw excursion from that for a coronal stop (Recasens and Espinosa 2009). Therefore, formant transitions into and out of the vowel /a/ may provide the clearest and most systematic, reliable information about coronal place distinctions in coronal-rich systems.…”

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Vowel acoustics reliably differentiate three coronal stops of Wubuy across prosodic contexts

Bundgaard‐Nielsen

Baker

Kroos

et al. 2012

Laboratory Phonology

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The present study investigates the acoustic differentiation of three coronal stops in the indigenous Australian language Wubuy. We test independent claims that only VC (vowel-into-consonant) (word-and utterance-initial) transitions provide robust acoustic cues for retroflex as compared to alveolar and dental coronal stops, with no differentiating cues among these three coronal stops evident in CV (consonant-into-vowel) transitions. The four-way stop distinction /t, t̪ , ʈ, c/ in Wubuy is contrastive word-initially (Heath 1984) and by implication utterance-initially, i.e., in CV-only contexts, which suggests that acoustic differentiation should be expected to occur in the CV transitions of this language, including in initial positions. Therefore, we examined both VC and CV formant transition information in the three target coronal stops across VCV (word-internal), V#CV (word-initial but utterance-medial) and ##CV

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Stop consonants in Yanyuwa and Yindjibarndi: locus equation data

Cited by 27 publications

References 33 publications

VC vs. CV syllables: a comparison of Aboriginal languages with English

VC vs. CV syllables: a comparison of Aboriginal languages with English

Half rhymes in Japanese rap lyrics and knowledge of similarity

Vowel acoustics reliably differentiate three coronal stops of Wubuy across prosodic contexts

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