Acoustic correlates of Burmese voiced and voiceless sonorants.
Burmese
acoustics
spread glottis
voiceless sonorants
Journal
Phonetica
ISSN: 1423-0321
Titre abrégé: Phonetica
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 0376424
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
15 Dec 2023
15 Dec 2023
Historique:
received:
03
08
2022
accepted:
22
08
2023
medline:
27
11
2023
pubmed:
5
9
2023
entrez:
5
9
2023
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Voiceless sonorant consonants are typologically rare segments, appearing in only a few of the world's languages, including Burmese. In this study, Burmese sonorants and their adjacent vowels are investigated in an attempt to (1) determine what acoustic correlates distinguish voiced and voiceless sonorants and (2) determine whether there are multiple realizations of voiceless sonorants and, if so, establish what acoustic correlates distinguish them. In order to pursue these questions, a production study was carried out and target words were analyzed, demonstrating that Burmese voiceless sonorants have a spread glottis period resulting in turbulent airflow 78 % of the time. Findings from linear mixed-effects models showed that voiced and voiceless sonorants are significantly different in terms of duration of the sonorant, F0 of the sonorant, and strength of excitation measured over the following vowel. A linear discriminant analysis was able to predict voicing category with 86.7 % accuracy, with the duration of the spread glottis period being the best indicator of voicelessness, followed by the cues that were significant in the linear mixed-effects models. In cases when the spread glottis period is absent from voiceless sonorants, the sonorant only has correlates that are associated with voicelessness (such as F0 and strength of excitation) but not correlates that are associated with the spread glottis gesture (such as duration and harmonics-to-noise ratio). These results have implications both for our understanding of the acoustics of Burmese sonorants and for our understanding of voiceless sonorants more generally.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37668316
pii: phon-2022-0026
doi: 10.1515/phon-2022-0026
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
433-463Informations de copyright
© 2023 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston.
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