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

Tabain, Marija; Breen, Gavan; Butcher, Andrew

doi:10.1017/s0025100304001719

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“…Most LE studies of Australian languages have been conducted by Tabain and colleagues (e.g., Tabain and Butcher, 1999). The findings for these languages can be summarized as follows: velar LE slopes are known to exceed 1 for these languages and bilabial slopes are also rather high, while palatal slopes tend to be relatively low (Arrernte, Yanyuwa, and Yindjibarndi: Tabain and Butcher, 1999;Tabain et al, 2004).…”

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“…Previous research conducted by Tabain et al (2004) on Australian languages, specifically, Arrernte, Yanyuwa, and Yindjibarndi (also spelled "Yintjiparnti"), has suggested that magnitudes of consonantal coarticulation by preceding and following vowels tend to be similar in these languages, which have multiple (coronal) places of articulation contrasts (see Sec. I C).…”

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“…The majority of these are studies of American English or Swedish, e.g., by Modarresi et al (2004), and Lindblom and colleagues (Lindblom et al, 2007;Lindblom and Sussman, 2012). In the context of Australian languages, only Tabain and colleagues have applied LEs to both CV and VC sequences (for Arrernte, Yanyuwa, and Yindjibarndi; Tabain et al, 2004). In their data, as previously mentioned (Sec.…”

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Locus equations and coarticulation in three Australian languages

Graetzer

Fletcher

Hajek

2015

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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Locus equations were applied to F2 data for bilabial, alveolar, retroflex, palatal, and velar plosives in three Australian languages. In addition, F2 variance at the vowel-consonant boundary, and, by extension, consonantal coarticulatory sensitivity, was measured. The locus equation slopes revealed that there were place-dependent differences in the magnitude of vowel-to-consonant coarticulation. As in previous studies, the non-coronal (bilabial and velar) consonants tended to be associated with the highest slopes, palatal consonants tended to be associated with the lowest slopes, and alveolar and retroflex slopes tended to be low to intermediate. Similarly, F2 variance measurements indicated that non-coronals displayed greater coarticulatory sensitivity to adjacent vowels than did coronals. Thus, both the magnitude of vowel-to-consonant coarticulation and the magnitude of consonantal coarticulatory sensitivity were seen to vary inversely with the magnitude of consonantal articulatory constraint. The findings indicated that, unlike results reported previously for European languages such as English, anticipatory vowel-to-consonant coarticulation tends to exceed carryover coarticulation in these Australian languages. Accordingly, on the F2 variance measure, consonants tended to be more sensitive to the coarticulatory effects of the following vowel. Prosodic prominence of vowels was a less significant factor in general, although certain language-specific patterns were observed.

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Locus equations and coarticulation in three Australian languages

Graetzer

Fletcher

Hajek

2015

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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“…The Pitjantjatjara recordings were used for , 2015a, 2015b and Tabain, Fletcher, and Butcher (2014). The English recordings were used for Tabain, Breen, and Butcher (2004), as was one of the Arrernte recordings. Many of the Arrernte recordings were used for Tabain and Breen (2011).…”

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Stress Effects on Stop Bursts in Five Languages

Tabain¹,

Breen

Butcher

et al. 2016

Laboratory Phonology

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This study examines the effects of stress on the stop burst in five languages differing in number of places of articulation, as reflected in burst duration, spectral centre of gravity, and spectral standard deviation. The languages studied are English (three places of articulation /p t k/), the Indonesian language Makasar (four places /p t c k/), and the Central Australian languages Pitjantjatjara, Warlpiri (both five places /p t ʈ c k/), and Arrernte (six places /p t̪ t ʈ c k/). We find that languages differ in how they manifest stress on the consonant, with Makasar not showing any effect of stress at all, and Warlpiri showing an effect on burst duration, but not on the spectral measures. For the other languages, the velar /k/ has a "darker" quality (i.e., lower spectral centre of gravity), and/or a less diffuse spectrum (i.e., lower standard deviation) under stress; while the alveolar /t/ has a "lighter" quality under stress. In addition, the dental /t̪ / has a more diffuse spectrum under stress. We suggest that this involves enhancement of the features [grave] and [diffuse] under stress, with velars being [+grave] and [-diffuse], alveolars being [-grave], and dentals being [+diffuse]. We discuss the various possible spectral effects of enhancement of these features. Finally, in the languages with five or six places of articulation, the stop burst is longer only for the palatal /c/ and the velar /k/, which have intrinsically long burst durations, and not for the anterior coronals /t̪ t ʈ/, which have intrinsically short burst durations. We suggest that in these systems, [burst duration] is a feature that separates these two groups of consonants.

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“…Examples in the text can be seen in the transcription of mpwaremere in line 3 of the orthographic version, nhenhe, rekamparre and wernetyeke in line 4, and some others. It surfaces also as a result of certain morphological processes; see table 1 of Tabain et al (2004) for examples. It is by far the most common vowel.…”

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Central Arrernte

Breen¹,

Dobson²

2005

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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Central Arrernte is the language of an area centred on the present-day town of Alice Springs, in Central Australia. It is one of a group of dialects or closely-related languages spoken or formerly spoken over most of the southeast quarter of the Northern Territory and extending on the east side into the far-western part of Queensland; a slightly less closely-related language extends south into the north-central part of South Australia. They include varieties using the names Anmatyerr, Alyawarr and Antekerrepenh as well as several varieties using the name Arrernte with (nowadays) English geographical qualifiers. The major surviving varieties, Eastern, Central and Western Arrernte, Eastern and Western Anmatyerr, Southern and Northern Alyawarr each have several hundred to a thousand speakers, and are still being learned by many of the children, who grow up bilingual (in English) or multilingual. Breen (2001) is a brief introduction to the phonology of these languages.

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

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Locus equations and coarticulation in three Australian languages

Locus equations and coarticulation in three Australian languages

Stress Effects on Stop Bursts in Five Languages

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