The Acoustics of Tonogenesis

Purcell, Elizabeth; Young, Steph; Villegas, G.; Cromshaw, J.; Smith, Relliford Stillmon

doi:10.3765/bls.v1i0.2347

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“…Previous descriptive sources conflicted with one another on the phonetic realisation of the DH consonants. First, [3,4,5] claim that aspiration no longer occurs, but [6] claims that some remaining traces of breathiness can be observed in vowels preceding DH consonants. Second, it is thought that voicing is also lost, but only word-initially [3,4,5].…”

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“…'T' 'TH' 'D' 'DH' Punjabi (IPA) koóa k h oRa goRa kôóa English gloss whip rough white horse system is commonly proposed, in which DH consonants induce low, low-rising, or falling tone in the following vowel; high, rising-falling, or rising tone in the preceding vowel; and mid tone elsewhere [3,4,5,6,7,8]. As these previous claims are either impressionistic or based on limited data, we conducted a careful production study using a comprehensive data set and modern phonetic analysis tools with the aim of providing a definitive phonetic characterization of these consonants [9].…”

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The Role of Pitch in Punjabi Word Identification

Kanwal

Ritchart

2016

Interspeech 2016

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Previous work has argued that one class of consonants in Punjabi-those thought to be historically voiced aspiratedhave now lost aspiration in all contexts and voicing in certain contexts. Word initially, these consonants are realized as voiceless unaspirated and are differentiated from other voiceless unaspirated consonants by a falling pitch on the following vowel. In this study, we investigate, using a two-alternative forced choice task, whether listeners make use of a falling pitch word-initially to distinguish between these two types of consonants that are otherwise phonetically identical. Our results show that, regardless of talker or listener, differences in falling pitch on the vowel following an unaspirated voiceless consonant are indeed sufficient for listeners to distinguish between words beginning with these consonants. These results provide further evidence that, in word-initial contexts, pitch may be in the process of phonologization in at least some dialects of Punjabi.

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