Formant Analysis and Mathematical Model of Kazakh Vowels

Kazakh

“…In Washington (2016), these vowels are transcribed as /uU/ and /U/ (see also Vajda 1994). In both Yessenbayev et al (2012) and Washington (2016), these two vowels show significant overlap, as they do in Figure 2. The higher vowel /U/ alternates with /´/ for labial harmony but the mid vowel /o/ almost never surfaces via labial harmony, but when it does, it alternates with /A/, as seen in /Zol5 AwS´-"A/ [Zo®owS´-"A] 'traveler-DAT'.…”

“…More so than any other issue in Kazakh phonology, scholars have provided vastly divergent accounts of the vowel inventory. Descriptions suggest as few as five to as many as eleven phonemic vowels in the language (Dzhunisbekov 1972;Kirchner 1992Kirchner , 1998Vajda 1994;Kara 2002;Yessenbayev, Karabalayeva & Sharipbayev 2012;Sharipbayev 2013;McCollum 2015;Washington 2016). Many writers, though, have suggested nine vowels are phonemic in Kazakh.…”

Labial Harmonic Shift in Kazakh: Mapping the Pathways and Motivations for Decay

“…Kazakh scholars have debated the number of underlying vowels in the language generally arguing for nine, or ten underling vowels (Dzhunisbekov 1972:10-11;Sharipbay 2013;Yessenbayev et al 2012 and citations therein). I will work on the assumption that there are actually eleven underlying vowels in the language, eight harmonic vowels plus three additional vowels.…”

Kazakh Vowel Recognition at the Beginning of Words

“…The system of synharmonic features of Kazakh vowels is presented in Table (Yessenbayev, Karabalayeva & Sharipbayev, 2012). …”

“…In this regard the authors carry out associated work. Thus, for example, complete formant analysis of Kazakh vowels was presented in the work of Yessenbayev, Karabalayeva and Sharipbayev (2012). Also the phonetic transcription converter for speech recognition was developed and Kazakh speech phonemic segmentation algorithms were implemented.…”