Open AccessA Phonemic and Acoustic Analysis of Hindko Oral Stops
Author(s) -
Haroon Rashid,
Raja Nasim Akhtar
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
acta linguistica asiatica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.114
H-Index - 2
ISSN - 2232-3317
DOI - 10.4312/ala.4.1.9-28
Subject(s) - voice onset time , duration (music) , psychology , speech recognition , acoustics , linguistics , computer science , voice , physics , philosophy
Hindko is an Indo-Aryan language that is mainly spoken in Khyber Pukhtoonkhaw province of Pakistan. This work aims to identify the oral stops of Hindko and determine the intrinsic acoustic cues for them. The phonemic analysis is done with the help of minimal pairs and phoneme distribution in contrastive environments which reveals that Hindko has twelve oral stops with three way series. The acoustic analysis of these segments shows that intrinsically voice onset time (VOT), closure duration and burst are reliable and distinguishing cues of stops in Hindko