Phonetics of White Hmong vowel and tonal contrasts

IF 0.8 3区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
M. Garellek, Christina M. Esposito
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Abstract

Hmong languages, particularly White Hmong, are well studied for their complex tone systems that incorporate pitch, phonation, and duration differences. Still, prior work has made use mostly of tones elicited in their citation forms in carrier phrases. In this paper, we provide a detailed description of both the vowel and tone systems of White Hmong from recordings of read speech. We confirm several features of the language, including the presence of nasal vowels (rather than derived nasalized vowels through coarticulation with a coda [ŋ]), the description of certain tone contours, and the systematic presence of breathy and creaky voice on two of the tones. We also find little evidence of additional intonational f0 targets. However, we show that some tones vary greatly by their position in utterance, and propose novel descriptions for several of them. Finally, we show that $\textrm{H}1^{\!*}$ –H2*, a widely used measure of voice quality and phonation in Hmong and across languages, does not adequately distinguish modal from non-modal phonation in this data set, and argue that noise measures like Cepstral Peak Prominence (CPP) are more robust to phonation differences in corpora with more variability.
白苗族元音和声调对比的语音
苗族语言,尤其是白人苗族语言,因其复杂的音调系统而受到广泛研究,这些音调系统包括音高、发音和持续时间的差异。尽管如此,先前的工作主要使用了载体短语中引用形式中引出的音调。在这篇文章中,我们提供了一个详细的描述元音和声调系统的白人苗族的录音。我们确认了该语言的几个特征,包括鼻元音的存在(而不是通过与尾音[ŋ]共同发音衍生的鼻化元音),对某些音调轮廓的描述,以及在其中两个音调上系统地存在呼吸声和吱吱声。我们也发现几乎没有证据表明有更多的国际f0目标。然而,我们发现一些音调因其在话语中的位置而有很大的差异,并对其中一些音调提出了新颖的描述。最后,我们展示$\textrm{H}1^{\!*}$–H2*,一种在苗族和不同语言中广泛使用的语音质量和发音测量方法,在该数据集中没有充分区分语气和非语气发音,并认为像倒谱峰突出度(CPP)这样的噪声测量方法对变化性更强的语料库中的发音差异更具鲁棒性。
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CiteScore
2.10
自引率
12.50%
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20
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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