In:
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Acoustical Society of America (ASA), Vol. 132, No. 3_Supplement ( 2012-09-01), p. 2001-2001
Abstract:
Breathy voiced sonorants occur in fewer than 1% of the languages indexed in the UCLA Phonological Segment Inventory Database. Acoustic analysis of these sounds remains sparse, and our understanding of the acoustic correlates of breathy voice in sonorants is incomplete. The current study presents data from Marathi, an Indo-Aryan language which boasts a number of breathy voiced sonorants. Ten native speakers (five male, five female) were recorded producing Marathi words embedded in a carrier sentence. Tokens included plain and breathy voiced nasals, laterals, rhotics, and approximants before the vowel [a]. Measures reported for consonants and subsequent vowels include duration, F0, Cepstral Peak Prominence (CPP), and corrected H1-H2*, H1-A1*, H1-A2*, and H1-A3* values. As expected, breathy sounds have lower CPP values than modal sounds, and larger positive values for the remaining spectral measures. The spectral effect of breathiness extends from the beginning of the consonant through the end of the vowel. While some breathy voiced sounds contain a salient breathy interval that is highly visible in the waveform and spectrogram, others don’t, and in its absence the spectral differences between breathy and modal sounds are greatly increased.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0001-4966
,
1520-8524
Language:
English
Publisher:
Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
Publication Date:
2012
detail.hit.zdb_id:
1461063-2
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