TY - JOUR
T1 - Uncovering the acoustic vowel space of a previously undescribed language
T2 - The vowels of Nambo
AU - Kashima, Eri
AU - Williams, Daniel
AU - Mark Ellison, T.
AU - Schokkin, Dineke
AU - Escudero, Paola
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Acoustical Society of America.
PY - 2016/6/1
Y1 - 2016/6/1
N2 - This study presents the first acoustic description of the vowel space of a Papuan language - Nambo, spoken in southern Papua New Guinea - based on duration and first and second formant measurements from 19 adult male and female speakers across three age groups (young, middle-aged, senior). Phonemically, Nambo has six full vowels /i, e, æ, o, u/ and a reduced vowel tentatively labeled //. Unlike the full vowels, the quality of // showed great variation: seniors' and young females' realizations tended to be more open and retracted than those by young males, while middle-aged speakers' productions fell between these two variants.
AB - This study presents the first acoustic description of the vowel space of a Papuan language - Nambo, spoken in southern Papua New Guinea - based on duration and first and second formant measurements from 19 adult male and female speakers across three age groups (young, middle-aged, senior). Phonemically, Nambo has six full vowels /i, e, æ, o, u/ and a reduced vowel tentatively labeled //. Unlike the full vowels, the quality of // showed great variation: seniors' and young females' realizations tended to be more open and retracted than those by young males, while middle-aged speakers' productions fell between these two variants.
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U2 - 10.1121/1.4954395
DO - 10.1121/1.4954395
M3 - Article
SN - 0001-4966
VL - 139
SP - EL252-EL256
JO - Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
JF - Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
IS - 6
ER -