Voicing in Qaqet: Prenasalization and language contact

Tabain, Marija; Garellek, Marc; Hellwig, Birgit; Gregory, Adele; Beare, Richard

doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2022.101138

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“…These SoE data are also consistent with other recent studies where known voiceless consonants similarly show a low but non-zero SoE (Seyfarth & Garellek, 2018; Tabain et al. 2022). Weak voicing, likely breathy or whispery, is indicated by moderate SoE away from the midpoint of aspiration in both directions: towards the preceding voiced constriction and the following voiced vowel.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…We note that the slight elevation above zero of this signal, which is seen for aspiration in all consonant types, is likely due to small contributions of energy associated with epochs spuriously detected during voicelessness (see Dhanajaya & Yegnanarayana 2009). These SoE data are also consistent with other recent studies where known voiceless consonants similarly show a low but non-zero SoE (Seyfarth & Garellek, 2018;Tabain et al 2022). Weak voicing, likely breathy or whispery, is indicated by moderate SoE away from the midpoint of aspiration in both directions: towards the preceding voiced constriction and the following voiced vowel.…”

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confidence: 90%

“…To characterize the presence and strength of the voice source over all intervals (constriction, aspiration, and vowel) and evaluate Hypotheses 1 and 2, we use strength of excitation (SoE), which has been used as a measure of voice source strength in a range of recent work on voicing and voice quality (Seyfarth & Garellek 2018; Garellek 2020; Garellek, Chai, Huang & Van Doren 2021; Tabain, Garellek, Hellwig, Gregory & Beare 2022). SoE was calculated at each detectable epoch in the acoustic signal using VoiceSauce (Shue et al., 2011).…”

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Voiced aspirates with mixed voicing in Yemba, a Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon

Faytak,

Steffman

2023

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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Using electroglottography and acoustic measures, we characterize the strength and quality of voicing in voiced aspirated and unaspirated consonants (stops, fricatives, and approximants) in Yemba (Grassfields Bantu, Cameroon). We show that the Yemba voiced aspirates exhibit mixed voicing: modal voicing during the consonant constriction, but voiceless aspiration after release. Breathy or whispery phonation extends slightly into consonant constrictions preceding, and across the entire duration of vowels following, aspiration; this non-modal phonation extends further into prenasalized consonants. Mixed voicing has typically been excluded from the possible range of laryngeal–supralaryngeal coordinative patterns in consonants, and is thought to be unattested in the world’s languages; most previous work on this topic assumes that non-modal phonation after voiced consonant release is breathy-voiced. However, we argue that Yemba voiced aspirates differ from more commonly studied breathy-release aspirates only in the settings of some gestural parameters: the late glottal spread gesture is larger in magnitude and more resistant to coarticulation, yielding consistently devoiced aspiration which may even be more perceptually recoverable compared to breathiness.

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Voiced aspirates with mixed voicing in Yemba, a Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon

Faytak,

Steffman

2023

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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Theoretical achievements of phonetics in the 21st century: Phonetics of voice quality

Garellek

2022

Journal of Phonetics

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On H1–H2 as an acoustic measure of linguistic phonation type

Chai

Garellek

2022

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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The measure H1–H2, the difference in amplitude between the first and second harmonics, is frequently used to distinguish phonation types and to characterize differences across voices and genders. While H1–H2 can differentiate voices and is used by listeners to perceive changes in voice quality, its relation to voice articulation is less straightforward. Its calculation also involves practical issues with error propagation. This paper highlights some developments in the use of H1–H2 and proposes a new measure that we call “residual H1.” In residual H1, the amplitude of the first harmonic is normalized against the overall sound energy (as measured by root mean square energy) instead of against H2. Residual H1 may mitigate some of the issues with using H1–H2. The current study tests the correlation between residual H1 and electroglottographic contact quotient (CQ) and compares the ability of residual H1 vs H1–H2 to differentiate statistically across phonation types in !Xóõ and utterance-level changes in phonatory quality in Mandarin. The results show that residual H1 has a stronger correlation with CQ and differentiates contrastive and allophonic phonatory quality better than H1–H2, particularly for more constricted phonation types.

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Voicing in Qaqet: Prenasalization and language contact

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References 37 publications

Voiced aspirates with mixed voicing in Yemba, a Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon

Voiced aspirates with mixed voicing in Yemba, a Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon

Theoretical achievements of phonetics in the 21st century: Phonetics of voice quality

On H1–H2 as an acoustic measure of linguistic phonation type

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