'Advanced Tongue Root' in Lopit: Acoustic and ultrasound evidence

Rosey Billington

'Advanced Tongue Root' in Lopit: Acoustic and ultrasound evidence

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This paper presents the results of an acoustic and articulatory in- vestigation of Advanced Tongue Root (ATR) in Lopit, an East- ern Nilotic language. As a phonological feature, ATR is widely attested in African vowel systems, and is held to correlate with tongue root advancement as a corollary of pharyngeal expan- sion. In the limited descriptive work on Lopit, there are different views on the presence and nature of such a contrast. Acoustic results indicate that Lopit has a 9-vowel system with an ATR- type contrast. Pilot ultrasound results suggest that the gestural correlate of the contrast is one of tongue root advancement.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 15th Australasian International Speech Science and Technology Conference
Editors	Hay J, Parnell, E
Place of Publication	Canberra, Australia
Publisher	The Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association, Inc.
Pages	119â€“122
ISBN (Print)	1039-0227
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	15th Australasian International Speech Science and Technology Conference - New Zealand, New Zealand Duration: 1 Jan 2014 → …

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Conference	15th Australasian International Speech Science and Technology Conference
Country/Territory	New Zealand
Period	1/01/14 → …
Other	December 2-5 2014

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Billington, R 2014, 'Advanced Tongue Root' in Lopit: Acoustic and ultrasound evidence. in HJPE (ed.), Proceedings of the 15th Australasian International Speech Science and Technology Conference. The Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association, Inc., Canberra, Australia, pp. 119â€“122, 15th Australasian International Speech Science and Technology Conference, New Zealand, 1/01/14.

'Advanced Tongue Root' in Lopit: Acoustic and ultrasound evidence. / Billington, Rosey.
Proceedings of the 15th Australasian International Speech Science and Technology Conference. ed. / Hay J, Parnell, E. Canberra, Australia: The Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association, Inc., 2014. p. 119â€“122.

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