An acoustic analysis of gemination in Eskimo and French - a spectrographic study of the effects on vowels of selected consonant and vowel features in Labrador Eskimo and St. Pierre French

The aim of this thesis is to investigate the extent to which surface phonetic contrasts are actually present in the acoustic stage of the speech chain, and to define the acoustic nature of such contrasts. This is mainly a spectrographic study of the three "extreme" vowels, (/i/, /a/ and /u...

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Main Author: Lafargue , Andre Gustave
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Memorial University of Newfoundland 1974
Subjects:
Kay
Online Access:https://research.library.mun.ca/7579/
https://research.library.mun.ca/7579/1/Lafargue_Andre.pdf
https://research.library.mun.ca/7579/3/Lafargue_Andre.pdf