Plosive voicing acoustics and voice quality in Yerevan Armenian
| Autor: | Marc Garellek, Scott Seyfarth |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Linguistics and Language
Glottis Armenian Speech recognition 05 social sciences Contrast (music) 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics language.human_language Acoustic space 030507 speech-language pathology & audiology 03 medical and health sciences Speech and Hearing Interval (music) medicine.anatomical_structure Aspirated consonant Vowel medicine language Voice 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 0305 other medical science Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Phonetics. 71:425-450 |
| ISSN: | 0095-4470 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.wocn.2018.09.001 |
| Popis: | Yerevan Armenian is a variety of Eastern Armenian with a three-way voicing contrast that includes voiced, voiceless unaspirated, and voiceless aspirated stops, but previous work has not converged on a description of how voice quality is involved in the contrast. We demonstrate how voice quality can be assessed in a two-dimensional acoustic space using a spectral tilt measure in conjunction with a measure of spectral noise. Eight speakers produced a list of words with prevocalic word-initial and postvocalic word-final plosives. The results suggest that Yerevan Armenian has breathy-voiced plosives which are produced with closure voicing and a relatively spread glottis that is maintained into a following vowel. These qualitatively differ from some Indic ones in that they do not have an extended interval of voiced aspiration after the closure. For the voiceless unaspirated plosives, most speakers produced acoustically modal voiceless plosives, although two showed evidence for some glottal constriction and tensing. Many acoustic cues contribute to overall reliable discriminability of the three-way contrast in both initial and final position. Nevertheless, closure voicing intensity and aspiration duration together provide a robust separation of the three categories in both positions. We also find that back vowels are fronted after the breathy-voiced plosives, which supports a historical analysis in which early Armenian voiced stops were also breathy, rather than plain voiced. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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