This paper reports on an acoustic study of the tonal system of the Pahari language. To achieve this aim, an experiment was conducted. Eight native speakers were given a set of monosyllabic triplets bearing three target tones to read them aloud for recording in a carrier sentence. The acoustic measures included F0, final velocity, and duration. The acoustic and statistical results show that (1) the average F0 demonstrates significant difference in the height of the pitch track of the three target words/tones; (2) final velocity shows three trends, namely falling, level, and rising associated with high, mid, and low tones, respectively; and (3) duration results indicate that high pitch track was significantly shorter than each of the other two pitch tracks. The study concludes that Pahari has three tones, namely high-falling, mid-level, and low-rising.

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巴哈里语系

本文报道了对Pahari语言音调系统的声学研究。为了达到这个目的，进行了实验。八个母语为母语的人提供了一组带有三个目标音调的单音节三连音，以大声朗读它们，并记录在带载体的句子中。声学测量包括F0，最终速度和持续时间。声学和统计结果表明：（1）平均值F0在三个目标单词/音调的音高高度上显示出显着差异；（2）最终速度显示出与高，中，低音分别相关的三个趋势，即下降，水平和上升；（3）持续时间结果表明，高音调轨道明显短于其他两个音调轨道。研究得出的结论是，Pahari具有三种音调，即高音，中音，