Voiced aspirates with mixed voicing in Yemba, a Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon

IF 0.8 3区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Matthew Faytak, Jeremy Steffman
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Abstract

Abstract Using electroglottography and acoustic measures, we characterize the strength and quality of voicing in voiced aspirated and unaspirated consonants (stops, fricatives, and approximants) in Yemba (Grassfields Bantu, Cameroon). We show that the Yemba voiced aspirates exhibit mixed voicing : modal voicing during the consonant constriction, but voiceless aspiration after release. Breathy or whispery phonation extends slightly into consonant constrictions preceding, and across the entire duration of vowels following, aspiration; this non-modal phonation extends further into prenasalized consonants. Mixed voicing has typically been excluded from the possible range of laryngeal–supralaryngeal coordinative patterns in consonants, and is thought to be unattested in the world’s languages; most previous work on this topic assumes that non-modal phonation after voiced consonant release is breathy-voiced. However, we argue that Yemba voiced aspirates differ from more commonly studied breathy-release aspirates only in the settings of some gestural parameters: the late glottal spread gesture is larger in magnitude and more resistant to coarticulation, yielding consistently devoiced aspiration which may even be more perceptually recoverable compared to breathiness.
喀麦隆草原班图语Yemba的混音发音
使用声门电图和声学测量,我们描述了Yemba(喀麦隆班图Grassfields)的浊音送气和不送气辅音(顿音、摩擦音和近音)的发音强度和质量。我们发现emba的浊音吸气表现出混合发声:在辅音收缩时是模态发声,而在释放后是清音吸气。呼吸式或低语式的发音稍微延伸到前面的辅音收缩,然后贯穿整个元音的持续时间,即吸气;这种非模态发音进一步延伸到前鼻音辅音中。混合发音通常被排除在喉部-咽上辅音协调模式的可能范围之外,并且被认为在世界语言中没有得到证实;先前关于这一主题的大多数工作都假设在浊音释放后的非模态发声是呼吸浊音。然而,我们认为,Yemba发音吸气法与更常见的呼吸释放吸气法的不同之处在于某些手势参数的设置:后期声门扩张手势的幅度更大,对协同发音的抵抗更强,产生持续的低声吸气,这甚至可能比呼吸更容易感知到。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of the International Phonetic Association (JIPA) is a forum for work in the fields of phonetic theory and description. As well as including papers on laboratory phonetics/phonology and related topics, the journal encourages submissions on practical applications of phonetics to areas such as phonetics teaching and speech therapy, as well as the analysis of speech phenomena in relation to computer speech processing. It is especially concerned with the theory behind the International Phonetic Alphabet and discussions of the use of symbols for illustrating the phonetic structures of a wide variety of languages. JIPA now publishes online audio files to supplement written articles Published for the International Phonetic Association
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