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An acoustic exploration of sibilant contrasts and sibilant merger in Mixean Basque Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Ander Egurtzegi, Dorota Krajewska, Christopher Carignan, Iñigo Urrestarazu-Porta
This exploratory study investigates sibilants in Mixean Low Navarrese, an endangered variety of Basque. This variety has been described with ten different contrastive sibilants: /s̻, s̺, ʃ, t͡s̻, t͡s̺, t͡ʃ, z̻, z̺, ʒ, d͡z̺/. The objective of the paper is to (a) provide a detailed description of the acoustics of Mixean sibilants, and (b) elucidate whether ten categories can be proposed based only on
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Voicing or register in Jarai dialects? Implications for the reconstruction of Proto-Chamic and for registrogenesis Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Marc Brunelle, Ke Leb, Thành Tấn Tạ, Lư Giang Đinh
Jarai is a Chamic language of Vietnam and Cambodia that is traditionally described as preserving the original Austronesian voicing contrast in onset obstruents. However, there is anecdotal evidence that it has developed a register contrast, i.e. a binary contrast based on a bundle of spectral properties like pitch, voice quality and vowel quality. We conducted production and perception experiments
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Retroflex and non-retroflex laterals in the Zibo dialect of Chinese Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Bing Dong, Jie Liang, Qing Yao
This paper reports on an acoustic study of the retroflex lateral /ɭ/ and non-retroflex lateral /l/, as well as on the schwas following the two laterals in the Zibo dialect. Analyses of formants measured at the temporal midpoint of the lateral and schwa segments show that the retroflex lateral /ɭ/ has a significantly lower F1 as well as a significantly larger C/V duration ratio than the non-retroflex
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Southern Tati: Takestani Dialect Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Neda Taherkhani, Scott Nelson
Southern Tati is a North-Western Iranian language in the Indo-European language family. Different varieties of this language group are spoken intermittently in the northern and northwestern parts of Iran, mainly in the Qazvin, Alborz, Markazi, Tehran, Ardabil, Gilan, Zanjan, and Khorasan-e-Shomali provinces. Previous linguistic work on the language consists of multiple descriptive grammars. These include
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Dynamic blending and assimilation in Catalan lingual fricative sequences. An ultrasound and acoustic study Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Daniel Recasens
Ultrasound and center of gravity frequency data for the sequences /ʃ#s/ and /s#ʃ/ produced by Central Catalan speakers reveal that the former sequence is implemented through continuous articulatory and spectral trajectories which, depending on speaker, may be: intermediate between /ʃ/ and /s/ all throughout, thus supporting a dynamic blending mechanism; /ʃ/-like at onset and intermediate between the
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The Asymmetrical Stop Inventory of Witzapan Nawat Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Hugo Salgado
The stop inventory of Witzapan Nawat, a critically endangered indigenous language of El Salvador, has been traditionally described as consisting only of a voiceless series /p t k kw/. In this paper, I measure the voice onset time, consonant duration, and percent voicing in stops produced by five L1 Witzapan Nawat speakers. I find that, while /p t kw/ have acoustic characteristics of voiceless stops
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The velarized lateral [ɫ] in East Austrian base dialects Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Jan Luttenberger, Nina Weihs, Eva Reinisch
This paper is concerned with the velarized lateral [ɫ] as a possible realization of the lateral phoneme /l/ in the rural Central Bavarian base dialects of German in Austria. So far, velarized laterals in Austrian German have mainly been described as a socially marked realization of /l/ in Vienna. However, descriptions of Austrian dialects mostly lack detailed acoustic analyses. Therefore, we analyzed
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Acoustic correlates of word stress and focus marking in Udmurt Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Lena Borise, Ekaterina Georgieva
In this paper, we investigate the prosodic realization of stress and focus in Udmurt (Uralic, Permic). According to the literature, Udmurt has fixed final stress, but also has several sets of morphosyntactic exceptions with initial stress. We report the results of two production studies. The first one targets nominals with final stress, and the second one investigates the stress properties of minimal
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Eleven vowels of Imilike Igbo including ATR and RTR schwa Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Samuel Akinbo, Avery Ozburn, Gerald Nweya, Douglas Pulleyblank
In this paper, we examine the acoustics of vowels in the Imilike [ìmìlìkè] dialect of Igbo (Igboid, Niger-Congo), which has not previously been done. While Standard Igbo has eight vowels, previous auditorily-based research has identified eleven vowels in Imilike. Like Standard Igbo, Imilike contrasts vowels in Advanced/Retracted Tongue Root (ATR vs. RTR). We find that there are eleven vowels, distinguished
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Abha Arabic Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Ibrahim Al Malwi, Alfredo Herrero de Haro, Amanda Baker
Abha Arabic is a dialect of Arabic (ISO 693-3: ara), belonging to the Semitic language family group, and spoken primarily in Abha city. Abha Arabic can be broadly classified as a variety of Arabic from the Arabian Peninsula group (Versteegh, 2014), and further sub-classified as a south (-west) Arabian dialect (Ingham, 1982). Abha city is the administrative capital of the province of Asir, in south-west
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Nuer Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Tatiana Reid
Nuer (ISO 6393: nus/Glottocode: nuer1246) is a Nilo-Saharan language (Nilo-Saharan, Eastern Sudanic, Nilotic, Western, Dinka-Nuer). The sound system of Nuer is of particular interest because the language has a rich inventory of vocalic and suprasegmental distinctions, including a large number of vowel phonemes, a voice quality contrast (modal versus breathy), three levels of vowel length, and a tonal
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An exploratory investigation of interactions between syllabic prominence, initial geminates, and phrasal boundaries in Pattani Malay Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Francesco Burroni, Sireemas Maspong, Pittayawat Pittayaporn, Pimthip Kochaiyaphum
This study investigates interactions among relative syllabic prominence, initial geminates (IGs), and prosodic boundaries in Pattani Malay (PM) against a background of previous analyses claiming that IGs are moraic and trigger a ‘stress shift’ or the linking of a pitch accent to the initial syllable. We conducted an acoustic study with fourteen PM speakers, producing singleton–IG minimal pairs in naturalistic
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Tima Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Marija Tabain, Gertrud Schneider-Blum
Tima (ISO 639-3: tms) is a Niger-Congo language spoken by roughly 7,000 people in the Nuba mountains of Sudan, in north-eastern Africa, as well as in smaller communities in the bigger towns of Sudan such as Khartoum and Port Sudan. It is part of the Katla language group which includes the languages Katla and Julut as well as Tima, with Tima being the most distinct of the three. All three languages
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An MRI-based articulatory analysis of the Kannada dental-retroflex contrast Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Alexei Kochetov, Christophe Savariaux, Laurent Lamalle, Camille Noûs, Pierre Badin
This paper investigates the production of dental and retroflex stops, fricatives, nasals, and laterals in the Dravidian language Kannada. This is done using articulatory contours extracted from an extensive midsagittal MRI corpus of two female Kannada speakers’ static vocal tract postures intended to capture key aspects of phonemic articulations. Articulatory modelling was used to determine a set of
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Voiced aspirates with mixed voicing in Yemba, a Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Matthew Faytak, Jeremy Steffman
Using electroglottography and acoustic measures, we characterize the strength and quality of voicing in voiced aspirated and unaspirated consonants (stops, fricatives, and approximants) in Yemba (Grassfields Bantu, Cameroon). We show that the Yemba voiced aspirates exhibit mixed voicing: modal voicing during the consonant constriction, but voiceless aspiration after release. Breathy or whispery phonation
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Armenian (Yerevan Eastern Armenian and Beirut Western Armenian) Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Scott Seyfarth, Hossep Dolatian, Peter Guekguezian, Niamh Kelly, Tabita Toparlak
Armenian (or , /hɑjeˈɾen/, ISO 639-1 hy) comprises an independent branch of the Indo-European language family.1 Its earliest attested ancestor is Classical Armenian in the fifth century CE (see Godel 1975; Thomson 1989; DeLisi 2015; Macak 2016). Modern Armenian is classified into two dialect families: Eastern Armenian (ISO 639-3 hye) and Western Armenian (ISO 639-3 hyw). Eastern Armenian is spoken
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Standard Lithuanian Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Rima Bakšienė, Agnė Čepaitienė, Jurgita Jaroslavienė, Jolita Urbanavičienė
The Lithuanian language, together with Latvian, belongs to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family and to the group of Eastern Baltic languages. The two surviving Baltic languages have many common features of phonemic inventories: opposition of long and short vowels, an abundance of diphthongs, a system of pitch accent. They have also developed substantial differences, e.g. Latvian has
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Regional variation in articulation rate in French spoken in Canada Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Wladyslaw Cichocki, Svetlana Kaminskaïa, Luke Hagar
This study examines articulation rate in three varieties of Canadian French and includes consideration of speaking style (reading vs. spontaneous), speaker’s age and gender, and length of inter-pause intervals. The varieties are spoken in different geographic areas of Canada – Quebec City (Quebec), Tracadie (New Brunswick), and Windsor (Ontario) – where there are different degrees of French–English
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The articulatory properties of apical vowels in Hefei Mandarin Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Huifang Kong, Shengyi Wu, Mingxing Li, Xiangrong Shen
Apical vowels are widely observed across Chinese dialects, such as the rime of [sɹ̩55] ‘think’ in Mandarin Chinese, which is a syllabic approximant homorganic to its preceding sibilant. The apical vowels in Hefei Mandarin differ from those in Mandarin Chinese and most other languages in three aspects: (i) there are three phonetic apical vowels [ɹ̩], [ɹ̩ʷ], and [ɻ̩] while others usually have one or
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Intrinsic vowel pitch in Hamont Dutch: Evidence for If0 reduction in the lower pitch range Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Jo Verhoeven, Bruce Connell
This study investigated Intrinsic Vowel Pitch (If0) in the Belgian Limburg dialect of Hamont. Its main aim was to investigate a potential correlation between If0 and f0, which has been attested in previous research, especially on contour tone languages. The Hamont dialect is particularly interesting because it has a pitch accent distinction, but also because the vowel system has a high and low vowel
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Phonological conditioning of affricate variability in Emirati Arabic Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Marta Szreder, Donald Derrick
This study investigates the conditioning effects of neighbouring consonants on the realisation of the phonemes /k/ and /dʒ/ in Emirati Arabic (EA), which are optionally realised as [tʃ] and [j], respectively. Based on previous accounts of EA and other Gulf Arabic (GA) dialects, we set out to test the prediction that proximity of other, phonetically similar coronal (COR) obstruents [COR, −son, −cont]
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Garifuna Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Maya Abtahian, Manasvi Chaturvedi, Cameron Greenop
Garifuna (cab, ISO 639-3) is spoken by the Garifuna people (previously known as Black Caribs and currently also by the plural Garinagu – Cayetano 1993), who reside along the Caribbean coast of Central America in communities in Belize, Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua, as well as in a large immigrant population in the United States. Population estimates in the literature for Garifuna speakers worldwide
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The vowel system of Qatari Arabic: Evidence for peripheral/non-peripheral distinction between long and short vowels Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Aisha Al-Mazrouei, Aisha Negm, Vladimir Kulikov
Arabic has a vowel system with three long and three short monophthongs. One of the parameters that accounts for qualitative differences between long and short vowels across languages is tenseness/laxness of vowels located on the peripheral/non-peripheral tracks in the vowel space. The present study investigates acoustical cues (F1, F2, and duration) of vowels using the data obtained from 21 speakers
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Phonetics of European Portuguese stress: A nonce word experiment Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Shu-hao Shih
This paper investigates the acoustic correlates of stress in European Portuguese. Using a nonce word experiment, this study controls the phonological environment of the stimuli so stressed and unstressed vowels with the same quality can be directly compared. Of the five acoustic measures examined, duration is the most robust correlate of stress, but the effect is limited to certain vowels and speakers
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Voice Onset Time in a language without voicing contrast: An acoustic analysis of Blackfoot oral stops Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Inge Genee, Fangfang Li
This paper presents an acoustic analysis of Voice Onset Time (VOT) in oral stop consonants in Blackfoot, an Algonquian language without contrastive voicing. We focus on VOT as one of the key temporal acoustic correlates of voicing and investigate VOT variation in relation to (i) place of articulation (labial vs. alveolar vs. velar); (ii) length (long vs. short), quality (/a/ vs. /o/), and accent pattern
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What’s in the r? A review of the usage of the r symbol in the Illustrations of the IPA Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Rémi Anselme, François Pellegrino, Dan Dediu
What does the symbol r mean when it is used in a transcription? Here we analyze the use of the symbols for the alveolar trills (r) and taps () among the Illustrations of the IPA since 1971. We begin by sketching the history of the various symbols and conventions used to represent the trill and the tap in two transcription traditions: the Americanist Transcription System and the International Phonetic
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Laryngeal realism and the voicing contrast in Khuzestani Arabic stops Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Nawal Bahrani, Vladimir Kulikov
In laryngeal realism (LR), laryngeal specification of stops is explained by direct maps of cues (e.g. VOT) onto privative phonological laryngeal features [voice] or [spread glottis]. Phonetic realization of the segments and speakers’ ‘control’ (e.g. the degree of intervocalic voicing and speech rate manipulation effects on VOT duration) are used as diagnostics of phonological specification. Similar
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Sonority sequencing and its relationship to articulatory timing in Georgian Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Caroline Crouch, Argyro Katsika, Ioana Chitoran
This work asks how the syllable as a unit is delimited in space and time. To do this we bring together two theoretical approaches to the syllable: a sonority-based approach which emphasizes spatial organization, and the coupled oscillator model (Nam, Goldstein & Saltzman 2009) which emphasizes temporal organization. Many languages present challenges to these theories, and here we focus on Georgian
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An acoustic analysis of Oromo vowels of the northern dialect Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Feda Negesse
This study presents the results of an acoustic analysis of Oromo vowels of the northern dialect. The data for the study were collected from 19 speakers (nine female, 10 male) who produced the vowels in the same phonetic environment. Such acoustic measures as duration, fundamental frequency and the first three formant frequencies were extracted for the analysis. In a linear mixed-effects model, each
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The acoustic characteristics of implosive and plosive bilabials in Shimaore Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Miki Mori
Implosive consonants have drawn the attention of researchers over time, partially due to their relative rarity in the world’s languages, and partially due to their unique ingressive air flow. This sound category has varying complex features from an articulatory and acoustic perspective. This study explores the sound category by analyzing the acoustic features of a language whose implosives have yet
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San Sebastián del Monte Mixtec Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-01-27 Félix Cortés, Iara Mantenuto, Jeremy Steffman
San Sebastián del Monte Mixtec (SSM) (ISO:mks), also known as Tò’on Ndà’vi, is a language of the Mixtecan family, Otomanguean stock (Rensch 1976). The Mixtecan language family consists of Mixtec, Cuicatec and Trique, though Mixtec and Cuicatec are part of the same subgroup, also called Mixtecan (Josserand 1983: 99–101). SSM is part of the Mixteca Baja region of Oaxaca (Josserand 1983: 107). San Sebastián
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On the nature of apical vowel in Jixi-Hui Chinese: Acoustic and articulatory data Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Bowei Shao, Rachid Ridouane
Chinese languages have a set of segments known as apical vowels, which have been analysed in previous studies as either genuine vowels, fricative vowels, fricative consonants, or approximants. This study is concerned with the apical vowel attested in Jixi-Hui Chinese. We examine this segment from acoustic and articulatory perspectives and argue that it is best defined as a fricative /z/. Phonologically
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Acoustic characteristics of fricatives in Francoprovençal (Nendaz) Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Adam J. Chong, Jonathan R. Kasstan
Francoprovençal (FP) is a highly fragmented, severely endangered, and under-documented language spoken in parts of France, Italy and Switzerland. FP spoken in the Swiss Canton of Valais has a relatively rich voiceless fricative inventory, which for some varieties includes /ɬ/. FP is therefore unusual amongst Romance languages given the presence of a phonemic lateral fricative, which is also typologically
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The phonetic realization of the plain uvular /q/ in a variety of South Bolivian Quechua Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Gillian Gallagher
This paper presents an acoustic description of the production of the plain uvular /q/ in the speech of eight speakers of South Bolivian Quechua. While this sound patterns phonologically as a stop, its primary realization is as a voiced continuant. Variation is documented with respect to segmental and prosodic position. Segmentally, a voiced continuant is the most common realization intervocalically
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Northern Tosk Albanian Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-08-16 Stefano Coretta, Josiane Riverin-Coutlée, Enkeleida Kapia, Stephen Nichols
Albanian (endonym: Shqip; Glotto: alba1268) is an Indo-European language which has been suggested to form an independent branch of the Indo-European family since the middle of the nineteenth century (Bopp 1855, Pedersen 1897, Çabej 1976). Though the origin of the language has been debated, the prevailing opinion in the literature is that it is a descendant of Illyrian (Hetzer 1995). Albanian is currently
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A phonetic case study of Tŝilhqot’in /z/ and /zʕ/ Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Sonya Bird, Sky Onosson
This paper provides an acoustic description of /z/ and /zʕ/ in Tŝilhqot’in (Northern Dene). These sounds are noted by Cook (1993, 2013) to show lenition and some degree of laterality in coda position. Based on recordings made in 2014 with a single, mother-tongue speaker of Tŝilhqot’in, we describe their acoustic properties and examine their distribution as a function of prosodic position and segmental
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Brazilian Veneto (Talian) Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-07-29 Natália Brambatti Guzzo
Brazilian Veneto is a Romance language spoken by approximately 500,000 people, most of whom live in the southern Brazilian states of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and Paraná (Margotti 2004, Pereira 2017). It is also spoken in the southeastern Brazilian states of São Paulo and Espírito Santo (see e.g. Loriato 2019). The language is often referred to by its speakers as Talian (/taˈljaŋ/), meaning
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Spectral and temporal properties of Estonian palatalization Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-05-13 Anton Malmi, Pärtel Lippus, Einar Meister
The aim of this paper is to describe and compare the spectral and temporal properties of Estonian palatalized and non-palatalized consonants /l n s t/ and the vowels that precede them. Acoustic recordings of 43 native Estonian subjects producing word pairs where palatalization differentiated meaning were analyzed in this study. We offer a new perspective on how palatalization is realized by employing
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Articulation of vowel length contrasts in Australian English Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-05-05 Louise Ratko, Michael Proctor, Felicity Cox
Acoustic studies have shown that in Australian English (AusE), vowel length contrasts are realised through temporal, spectral and dynamic characteristics. However, relatively little is known about the articulatory differences between long and short vowels in this variety. This study investigates the articulatory properties of three long–short vowel pairs in AusE: /iː–ɪ/ beat – bit, /ɐː–ɐ/ cart – cut
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Fifty years of change to prevocalic definite article allomorphy in Australian English Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-05-04 Felicity Cox, Joshua Penney, Sallyanne Palethorpe
The English definite article has two major allomorphs: prevocalic /ðiː/ and preconsonantal /ðə/. Recent studies have shown changes to definite article allomorphy in some English varieties. Younger speakers, particularly from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, often use /ðə/ prevocalically rather than /ðiː/. The prevocalic definite article (PVDA) /ðiː/ facilitates management of vowel
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Markina Basque Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Izaro Bedialauneta Txurruka, José Ignacio Hualde
This Illustration of the IPA describes the sound system of the local dialect of Basque (euskara, euskera, IS0-639-3 eus) spoken in the town of Markina-Xemein, in the province of Bizkaia (Biscay), within the Basque Autonomous Community of Spain (see maps in Figures 1 and 2. Speakers of this local variety of Basque refer to it as markiñarra or Markiñeko euskerie.
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Qaqet Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-03-15 Marija Tabain, Birgit Hellwig
Qaqet (Glottocode qaqe1238; ISO 639-3: byx) is a Papuan (i.e. non-Austronesian) Baining language that is spoken by an estimated 15,000 people in Papua New Guinea’s East New Britain Province. Figure 1 shows a map of where Qaqet and the four other known Baining languages (Mali, Kairak (also spelt Qairaq – see map), Simbali and Ura) are spoken (see Stebbins, Evans & Terrill 2017 for an overview of Baining;
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Lateral tongue bracing as a universal postural basis for speech Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-03-08 Yadong Liu, Felicia Tong, Gillian de Boer, Bryan Gick
Lateral bracing refers to an intentional tongue posture whereby the sides of the tongue make contact with the sides of the palate and the upper molars. While previous research on this topic has focused mostly on English, the present study tests the hypothesis that lateral bracing provides a fundamental postural basis for speech and is present across languages. We predicted that, across multiple languages
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Phonetic variation of Irish English /t/ in the syllabic coda Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-01-20 Radek Skarnitzl, Diana Rálišová
The consonant /t/ is acknowledged as being an immensely variable sound in the accents of English. This study aims to contribute to accounting for this variability by analyzing the phonetic realizations of /t/ in 21 speakers (15 female, six male) of Southern Irish English. The speakers were asked to read a short text (Deterding 2006) and to speak spontaneously with the experimenter. In total, 1,519
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Voiceless nasals in the Ikema dialect of Miyako Ryukyuan Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-01-20 Catherine Ford, Benjamin V. Tucker, Tsuyoshi Ono
Voiceless nasal consonants are typologically rare in the world’s languages. The present study investigates the acoustic realization of reported voiceless nasals in the Miyako Ryukyuan dialect Ikema. Voiceless nasals in Ikema occur word-initially and word-medially as part of a geminate or consonant cluster, and are phonemically distinct from modal voiced nasals. Initial observation of collected recordings
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Chukchansi Yokuts Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-01-17 Niken Adisasmito-Smith, Peter Guekguezian, Holly Wyatt
Chukchansi belongs to the Yokuts language family (ISO 639 code: yok) ancestrally spoken in the San Joaquin valley of Central California and in the adjacent foothills of the Sierra Nevada. The headquarters of the Chukchansi tribe is located in Coarsegold and many members of the tribe live in and around Madera and Fresno counties. As shown in the map in Figure 1, there are three major territories of
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Vowel allophony in Ness Gaelic: Phonetic and phonological patterns of laxing and retraction Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2022-01-07 Donald Alasdair Morrison
The vowel system of the dialect of Scottish Gaelic spoken in Ness, Lewis differs from that of other dialects in several important ways. In particular, several vowels display patterns of allophony that have not been investigated instrumentally and, in some cases, have not been reported before for Scottish Gaelic. This paper documents the Ness system in detail, focusing in particular on the tense–lax
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The acoustics of word-initial and word-internal voiced stops in Somali Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-12-27 Sabrina Bendjaballah, David Le Gac
This article seeks to determinethe acoustic correlates of gemination in Standard Somali (Afroasiatic, Cushitic), in particular whether closure duration is the primary acoustic correlate distinguishing singleton and geminate stops, with immediate consequences for the analysis of word-initial strengthening. We provide an acoustic analysis of word-initial and word-internal voiced singletons as well as
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In Memoriam Jack Windsor Lewis (1926–2021) Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-11-18 Paul Carley,Inger M. Mees
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On the history of palatography in Hungarian phonetics Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-11-03 Mária Gósy
The beginnings of the field of experimental phonetics can be traced back to the second half of the nineteenth century, when (among others) palatography, initiated by an English dentist, started an important new trend in phonetics. This paper outlines the evolution of this revolutionary experimental technique, discusses its two types, direct (static vs. natural) and indirect palatography, and describes
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Effect of emphasis spread on VOT in coronal stops in Qatari Arabic Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-11-02 Vladimir Kulikov, Fatemeh M. Mohsenzadeh, Rawand M. Syam
Emphasis (contrastive pharyngealization of coronals) in Arabic spreads from an emphatic consonant to neighboring segments. Previous research suggests that in addition to changing spectral characteristics of adjacent segments, emphasis might affect voice onset time (VOT) of voiceless stops because emphatic stops in Arabic dialects have considerably shorter VOT than their plain cognates. No study investigated
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The influence of Standard German on the vowels and diphthongs of West Central Bavarian Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-11-02 Katrin Wolfswinkler, Jonathan Harrington
The spoken accent of children is strongly influenced by those of their peers but how rapidly do they adapt to sound changes in progress? We addressed this issue in an acoustic analysis of child and adult vowels of West Central Bavarian (WCB) that may be subject to an increasing influence by the Standard German (SG) variety. The study was a combination of longitudinal and apparent-time analyses: re-recordings
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The status of sibilant harmony in Diné Bizaad (Navajo) Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-10-18 Kayla Palakurthy
This article presentsan acoustic phonetic study of contemporary Diné Bizaad (Navajo) sibilant harmony, with a focus on the realization of /s/ and /ʃ/ in two verbal prefixes and one nominal prefix. Data come from wordlists and connected speech recorded in interviews with 50 Diné Bizaad–English bilinguals, aged 18–75 years. The frequency of harmony in each prefix is calculated for speakers of different
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Sequences of high tones across word boundaries in Tswana Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-10-06 Sabine Zerbian, Frank Kügler
The article analyses violations of the Obligatory Contour Principle (OCP) above the word level in Tswana, a Southern Bantu language, by investigating the realization of adjacent lexical high tones across word boundaries. The results show that across word boundaries downstep (i.e. a lowering of the second in a series of adjacent high tones) only takes place within a phonological phrase. A phonological
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The rhythms of rhythm Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-08-16 Dafydd Gibbon
The low frequency (LF) spectral analysis or ‘rhythm spectrum’ approach to the quantitative analysis and comparison of speech rhythms is extended beyond syllable or word rhythms to ‘rhetorical rhythms’ in read-aloud narratives, in a selection of exploratory scenarios, with the aim of developing a unified theory of speech rhythms. Current methodologies in the field are first discussed, then the choice
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Nafsan Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-08-10 Rosey Billington, Nick Thieberger, Janet Fletcher
Nafsan (ISO 639-3: erk, Glottocode: sout2856), also known as South Efate, is a Southern Oceanic language of Vanuatu. It is spoken in Erakor, Eratap and Pango, three villages situated along the southern coast of the island of Efate (Figure 1) (Clark 1985, Lynch 2000, Thieberger 2006). Nafsan is also closely related to Eton, Lelepa, Nakanamanga and Namakura, spoken further to the north on Efate and some
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Contextual reduction of word-final /l/ in Spanish: An EPG study Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-07-19 Michael Ramsammy
This article presents data on the contextual reduction of /l/ in Spanish. Electropalatography (EPG) was used to examine realisations of word-final /l/ in prevocalic and preconsonantal environments in order to determine to what extent articulatory reduction of the /l/ is attributable to coarticulation with following segments. Previous studies using static palatography (Josselyn 1907) describe continuous
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Voicing of glottal consonants and non-modal vowels Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-07-19 Marc Garellek, Yuan Chai, Yaqian Huang, Maxine Van Doren
Variation in voicing is common among sounds of the world’s languages: sounds that are analyzed as voiceless can undergo voicing, and those analyzed as voiced can devoice. Among voiceless glottal sounds in particular, voicing is widespread: linguists often expect the voiceless glottal stop [ʔ] and fricative [h] to be fully voiced, especially between vowels. In this study, we use audio recordings from
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The vowel system of Santiago Mexquititlán Otomi (Hñäñho) Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-07-19 Stanislav Mulík, Mark Amengual, Gloria Avecilla-Ramírez, Haydée Carrasco-Ortíz
The present study provides an acoustic description of the vowel system of Santiago Mexquititlán Otomi (Hñäñho), an endangered and understudied Oto-Manguean language variety spoken in central Mexico. The goal of this production study was to determine whether the phonemic contrasts between Hñäñho vowels, as previously described impressionistically, are maintained in the acoustic realizations of a group
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Mecapalapa Tepehua Journal of the International Phonetic Association (IF 0.8) Pub Date : 2021-06-22 Esther Herrera Zendejas
Mecapalapa Tepehua (ISO code: tee) is a language of Mexico that belongs to the Huehuetla branch of the Totonac-Tepehua linguistic family. It is spoken in the town of Mecapalapa, Puebla, Mexico. This linguistic family is composed of the Tepehua and Totonac branches (see MacKay & Trechsel 2014 and references there). The Tepehua branch consists of three main languages and their respective varieties: Pisaflores