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Uncovering the acoustic vowel space of a previously undescribed language: The vowels of Nambo

Author(s) -

Eri Kashima,

Daniel Williams,

T. Mark Ellison,

Dineke Schokkin,

Paola Escudero

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

the journal of the acoustical society of america

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1520-8524

pISSN - 0001-4966

DOI - 10.1121/1.4954395

Subject(s) - formant , vowel , mid vowel , duration (music) , variation (astronomy) , audiology , space (punctuation) , new guinea , acoustics , age groups , psychology , linguistics , speech recognition , history , computer science , physics , medicine , demography , sociology , astrophysics , philosophy , ethnology

This study presents the first acoustic description of the vowel space of a Papuan language-Nambo, spoken in southern Papua New Guinea-based on duration and first and second formant measurements from 19 adult male and female speakers across three age groups (young, middle-aged, senior). Phonemically, Nambo has six full vowels /i, e, æ, ɑ, o, u/ and a reduced vowel tentatively labeled /ə/. Unlike the full vowels, the quality of /ə/ showed great variation: seniors' and young females' realizations tended to be more open and retracted than those by young males, while middle-aged speakers' productions fell between these two variants.

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