Vowels of Upper Tanana Athabascan
| Autor: | Olga Lovick, Siri G. Tuttle, Isabel Núñez-Ortiz |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 41:283-312 |
| ISSN: | 1475-3502 0025-1003 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/s002510031100034x |
| Popis: | This paper provides a detailed phonetic, synchronic description of the oral vowels of Upper Tanana, an Athabascan language spoken in eastern interior Alaska and the western Yukon Territory. Upper Tanana has, depending on the dialect, six or seven oral monophthongs that can be modified for (low) tone, nasalization, and length. Previous accounts are auditory. They disagree regarding the articulation of two of the vowels (which we represent as /ɘ/ and /ʌ/), and raise the question of whether ‘length’ indicates a quantity or a quality distinction. In contrast to earlier accounts, we provide acoustic measurements of F1, F2, and the duration of the vowels of two Alaskan dialects of Upper Tanana: Northway and Tetlin. We find that the phonetic realization of one of the vowels is quite different from the earlier auditory descriptions. For the other vowels and for the quantity distinction, our findings support earlier descriptions while supplying new details. Several co-articulation effects, previously undescribed, are also identified. |
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