A Happy Marriage: The Stop and Affricate Inventory of the Mixed Language Light Warlpiri (Australia)

Rikke L Bundgaard-Nielsen; Carmel O'Shannessy

A Happy Marriage: The Stop and Affricate Inventory of the Mixed Language Light Warlpiri (Australia)

Rikke L Bundgaard-Nielsen, Carmel O'Shannessy

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This paper presents a first acoustic analysis of the stops and affricates of the mixed language Light Warlpiri (Australia). The results suggest that the Light Warlpiri phonological inventory consists of a voiced and voiceless series of stops and affricates, differentiated by Voice Onset Time (VOT) wordinitially and by Constriction Duration (CD) medially, by incorporating English-like VOT differentiation and Constriction duration differences found in Kriol and also in a number of traditional Indigenous Australian languages. Word-initially, stops from Warlpiri words pattern with English/Kriol voiced stops; medially with the long stops in Kriol, /c/ being the exception in patterning with short /Ê¤/, rather than the voiceless /Ê§/. This inventory allows speakers of Light Warlpiri to maintain sufficient phonemic contrasts to accommodate vocabulary items in Light Warlpiri sourced from English/Kriol as well as Warlpiri, the Indigenous Australian language that they also speak.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
Editors	S. Calhoun, P. Escudero, M. Tabain, & P. Warren
Place of Publication	Melbourne
Publisher	Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc.
Pages	1283-1287
Edition	Peer Reviewed
ISBN (Print)	978-0-646-80069-1
Publication status	Published - 2019
Event	19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, ICPhS 2019 - Melbourne, Australia, Australia Duration: 1 Jan 2019 → … https://www.icphs2019.org/

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Conference	19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, ICPhS 2019
Country/Territory	Australia
Period	1/01/19 → …
Other	Aug 5-9 2019
Internet address	https://www.icphs2019.org/

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Bundgaard-Nielsen, Rikke L ; O'Shannessy, Carmel. / A Happy Marriage: The Stop and Affricate Inventory of the Mixed Language Light Warlpiri (Australia). Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. editor / S. Calhoun, P. Escudero, M. Tabain, & P. Warren. Peer Reviewed. ed. Melbourne : Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc., 2019. pp. 1283-1287

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Bundgaard-Nielsen, RL & O'Shannessy, C 2019, A Happy Marriage: The Stop and Affricate Inventory of the Mixed Language Light Warlpiri (Australia). in SCPEMTPW (ed.), Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Peer Reviewed edn, Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc., Melbourne, pp. 1283-1287, 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, ICPhS 2019, Australia, 1/01/19.

A Happy Marriage: The Stop and Affricate Inventory of the Mixed Language Light Warlpiri (Australia). / Bundgaard-Nielsen, Rikke L; O'Shannessy, Carmel.
Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. ed. / S. Calhoun, P. Escudero, M. Tabain, & P. Warren. Peer Reviewed. ed. Melbourne: Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc., 2019. p. 1283-1287.

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