The acoustics of Cypriot Greek fricatives

Aristodemou, Andrie; Savva, Angelandria; Themistocleous, Charalambos

doi:10.36505/exling-2015/06/0003/000240

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“…An advantage of using spectral moments is that this method can enable the probabilistic analysis of fricative spectra (see also Koenig et al, 2013 ). In our earlier research, we employed spectral moments to specify the effects of the place of articulation and stress on fricatives (Aristodemou et al, 2015 ; Themistocleous et al, 2016 ). In this study, we employ spectral moments to determine the effects of dialect on fricative spectra.…”

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“…Notably, only a handful of studies provides acoustic evidence on Athenian Greek and Cypriot Greek fricatives: Nirgianaki ( 2014 ) who provided acoustic evidence on the Athenian Greek fricatives, two earlier pilot studies of ours that report acoustic evidence for four fricatives of the Cypriot Greek and Athenian Greek fricatives, i.e., [f, θ, ç, x] (Aristodemou et al, 2015 ; Themistocleous et al, 2016 ), and Eftychiou ( 2008 ) who investigates vowel elision and within this context, she reports acoustic measurements for the Cypriot Greek [s]. So, this study will be the first to provide comparative data from Athenian Greek and Cypriot Greek fricatives and it will show their coarticulatory effects on the following vowels.…”

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Effects of Two Linguistically Proximal Varieties on the Spectral and Coarticulatory Properties of Fricatives: Evidence from Athenian Greek and Cypriot Greek

Themistocleous¹

2017

Front. Psychol.

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Several studies have explored the acoustic structure of fricatives, yet there has been very little acoustic research on the effects of dialects on the production of fricatives. This article investigates the effects of two linguistically proximal Modern Greek dialects, Athenian Greek and Cypriot Greek on the temporal, spectral, and coarticulatory properties of fricatives and aims to determine the acoustic properties that convey information about these two dialects. Productions of voiced and voiceless labiodental, dental, alveolar, palatal, and velar fricatives were extracted from a speaking task from typically speaking female adult speakers (25 Cypriot Greek and 20 Athenian Greek speakers). Measures were made of spectral properties, using a spectral moments analysis. The formants of the following vowel were measured and second degree polynomials of the formant contours were calculated. The findings showed that Athenian Greek and Cypriot Greek fricatives differ in all spectral properties across all places of articulation. Also, the co-articulatory effects of fricatives on following vowel were different depending on the dialect. Duration, spectral moments, and the starting frequencies of F1, F2, F3, and F4 contributed the most to the classification of dialect. These findings provide a solid evidence base for the manifestation of dialectal information in the acoustic structure of fricatives.

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