A phonetic case study of Tŝilhqot’in /z/ and /zʕ/

IF 0.8 3区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Journal of the International Phonetic Association Pub Date : 2022-08-02 DOI:10.1017/s0025100322000093

S. Bird, Sky Onosson

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Abstract

This paper provides an acoustic description of /z/ and /zʕ/ in Tŝilhqot’in (Northern Dene). These sounds are noted by Cook (1993, 2013) to show lenition and some degree of laterality in coda position. Based on recordings made in 2014 with a single, mother-tongue speaker of Tŝilhqot’in, we describe their acoustic properties and examine their distribution as a function of prosodic position and segmental environment. We find that they vary along three dimensions: manner (fricative–approximant), degree of retraction (non-retracted–retracted), and laterality (non-lateral–lateral). In addition, some tokens have a characteristic ‘buzziness’, which has been associated with the Chinese front apical vowel (Shao & Ridouane 2018, 2019) and the Swedish ‘Viby-i’ (Westberger 2019). We argue that ‘lenition’ (Kirchner 2004, Ennever, Meakins & Round 2017) can only account for some of the observed variation and suggest that both /z/ and /zʕ/ are specified for two tongue articulations: tongue tip/blade and tongue body (Laver 1994), encompassing laterality (and concomitant retraction) in addition to the primary coronal gesture.

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Tŝilhqot'in/z/和/zʕ的语音个案研究/

本文提供了Tŝilhqot'in（Northern Dene）中/z/和/zʕ/的声学描述。库克（1993、2013）注意到这些声音在尾音位置上表现出音调和一定程度的偏侧性。基于2014年由一位母语为Tŝilhqot'in的人录制的录音，我们描述了它们的声学特性，并将它们的分布作为韵律位置和节段环境的函数进行了研究。我们发现它们在三个维度上变化：方式（擦音-近似）、回缩程度（非回缩-回缩）和偏侧性（非侧-侧）。此外，一些代币具有“嗡嗡声”的特征，这与汉语前端元音（Shao&Ridouane 20182019）和瑞典语“Viby-i”（Westberger 2019）有关。我们认为“lenition”（Kirchner 2004，Ennever，Meakins&Round 2017）只能解释一些观察到的变化，并认为/z/和/zʕ/都适用于两种舌关节：舌尖/舌尖和舌体（Laver 1994），除了主要的冠状手势外，还包括偏侧性（和伴随的回缩）。

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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