The production and perception of laryngealized vowels in Coatzospan Mixtec

Gerfen, Chip; Baker, Kirk

doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2004.11.002

Cited by 51 publications

(37 citation statements)

References 22 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Finally, we turn our attention to the phonetic manifestation of intervocalic [/], which is normally realized with very slight creak, pitch declination, and amplitude perturbation. There is no complete glottal closure, like we observed for coda [/], a fact which corresponds to findings on Coatzospan Mixtec, a related language (Gerfen and Baker 2005). A spectrogram of the intervocalic glottal stop is given in (9), with the word [R´) /´] 3.3 'mushroom.'…”

Section: On Non-optimal Laryngeal Timing: the Case Of Triquesupporting

confidence: 71%

On Non-Optimal Laryngeal Timing: The Case of Trique

DiCanio

2006

BLS

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Section: On Non-optimal Laryngeal Timing: the Case Of Triquesupporting

confidence: 71%

On Non-Optimal Laryngeal Timing: The Case of Trique

DiCanio

2006

BLS

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…We propose three possible explanations. First, it is known that rapid dips in F0 can cue the percept of creaky voice quality in Mixtec (Gerfen and Baker, 2005) and of glottal stops in English (Hillenbrand and Houde, 1996), suggesting that some forms of perceived creaky voice can be tied to pitch dynamics alone. The pitch variations in the stimuli in experiment 1 could have produced an integrated percept of creaky voice, even in the absence of physical creak.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Voice quality and tone identification in White Hmong

Garellek

Keating

Esposito

et al. 2013

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This study investigates the importance of source spectrum slopes in the perception of phonation by White Hmong listeners. In White Hmong, nonmodal phonation (breathy or creaky voice) accompanies certain lexical tones, but its importance in tonal contrasts is unclear. In this study, native listeners participated in two perceptual tasks, in which they were asked to identify the word they heard. In the first task, participants heard natural stimuli with manipulated F0 and duration (phonation unchanged). Results indicate that phonation is important in identifying the breathy tone, but not the creaky tone. Thus, breathiness can be viewed as contrastive in White Hmong. Next, to understand which parts of the source spectrum listeners use to perceive contrastive breathy phonation, source spectrum slopes were manipulated in the second task to create stimuli ranging from modal to breathy sounding, with F0 held constant. Results indicate that changes in H1-H2 (difference in amplitude between the first and second harmonics) and H2-H4 (difference in amplitude between the second and fourth harmonics) are independently important for distinguishing breathy from modal phonation, consistent with the view that the percept of breathiness is influenced by a steep drop in harmonic energy in the lower frequencies.

show abstract

“…stiffening of the vocal folds -which may or may not result in creaky voice -is a better concept, as do Garellek and Keating [2011]. Gerfen and Baker [2005], in the same vein, find that laryngealization in Coatzospan Mixtec is highly variable within and across speakers and often realized with very subtle F 0 and amplitude cues. Kohler's [1994Kohler's [ , 2001 analysis of German glottalization yields a corresponding variability in phonatory explicitness, less surprising perhaps since the non-modal voice is not contrastive, but a feature of stop consonant production.…”

Section: Acoustic Propertiesmentioning

confidence: 90%

Danish Stød: Laryngealization or Tone

2013

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In the light of previous acoustic analyses of Danish stød and Danish intonation, we discuss two different phonological theories. In one, stød is an autonomous laryngeal syllable prosody. In the other, stød is the phonetic manifestation of an HL tonal pattern compressed within one syllable. The tonal representation is found to be contradicted by the phonetic reality, and it cannot account for the structurally determined alternation between non-stød and stød in inflection and derivation, nor for latent stød or stød in compounds. Furthermore, stød patterns are largely constant across regional varieties of Danish, but tonal patterns over the relevant structural domains are highly variable. Thus, stød may occur on any kind of tonal configuration, anywhere in the speaker's pitch range, a variability which is hard to reconcile with a fixed HL representation.

show abstract

The production and perception of laryngealized vowels in Coatzospan Mixtec

Cited by 51 publications

References 22 publications

On Non-Optimal Laryngeal Timing: The Case of Trique

On Non-Optimal Laryngeal Timing: The Case of Trique

Voice quality and tone identification in White Hmong

Danish Stød: Laryngealization or Tone

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About