The acoustics of uvulars in Tlingit
This paper looks at the acoustics of uvulars in Tlingit, an Athabaskan language spoken in Alaska and Canada. Data from five native speakers was used for acoustic analysis for tokens from five phoneme groups (alveolars, plain velars, labialized velars, plain uvulars, and labialized uvulars). The toke...
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ftrutgersuniv:oai:example.org:rutgers-lib:39596 2023-05-15T18:33:18+02:00 The acoustics of uvulars in Tlingit Denzer-King, Ryan, 1983- Denzer-King, Ryan, 1983- (author) Kawahara, Shigeto (chair) Akinlabi, Akin (internal member) Tesar, Bruce (internal member) Rutgers University Graduate School - New Brunswick 2013 vi, 30 p. : ill. electronic resource application/pdf http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.1/rucore10001600001.ETD.000067757 eng eng Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations Graduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations rucore19991600001 http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.1/rucore10001600001.ETD.000067757 Linguistics Tlingit language--Consonants Text theses 2013 ftrutgersuniv 2022-05-30T13:46:02Z This paper looks at the acoustics of uvulars in Tlingit, an Athabaskan language spoken in Alaska and Canada. Data from five native speakers was used for acoustic analysis for tokens from five phoneme groups (alveolars, plain velars, labialized velars, plain uvulars, and labialized uvulars). The tokens were analyzed by computing spectral moments of plosive bursts and fricatives, and F2 and F3 values for post-consonantal vowels, which were used to calculate locus equations, a descriptive measure of the relationship between F2 at vowel onset and midpoint. Several trends were observed, including a greater difference between F2 and F3 after uvulars than after velars, as well as a higher center of gravity (COG) and lower skew and kurtosis for uvulars than for velars. The comparison of plain versus labialized consonants supports the finding of Suh (2008) that labialization lowers mean burst energy, or COG, and additionally found labialization to raise skew and kurtosis. M.A. Includes bibliographical references Includes vita by Ryan Denzer-King Thesis tlingit Alaska RUcore - Rutgers University Community Repository Canada |
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This paper looks at the acoustics of uvulars in Tlingit, an Athabaskan language spoken in Alaska and Canada. Data from five native speakers was used for acoustic analysis for tokens from five phoneme groups (alveolars, plain velars, labialized velars, plain uvulars, and labialized uvulars). The tokens were analyzed by computing spectral moments of plosive bursts and fricatives, and F2 and F3 values for post-consonantal vowels, which were used to calculate locus equations, a descriptive measure of the relationship between F2 at vowel onset and midpoint. Several trends were observed, including a greater difference between F2 and F3 after uvulars than after velars, as well as a higher center of gravity (COG) and lower skew and kurtosis for uvulars than for velars. The comparison of plain versus labialized consonants supports the finding of Suh (2008) that labialization lowers mean burst energy, or COG, and additionally found labialization to raise skew and kurtosis. M.A. Includes bibliographical references Includes vita by Ryan Denzer-King |
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