C17. The Variations, Quantification, and Generalizations of Standard Thai Tones

17.2 Acoustic Analysis of Thai Tones

17.2.1 Aim
(1)to investigate how Thai tones vary when they sit on TBUs of different durations
(2)to find the process involved in these tonal variations

17.2.2 Speakers
number:three
sex:female
native language:Standard Thai
age:25-29
Background: grew up in Bangkok and not have any speech or hearing deficiency

17.2.3 Tokens
The test words:
45% meaningful Standard Thai words
55% nonsense Standard Thai words

The structure of word: C1V(:)C2T
C1 -> nasal /m/,/n/, or /n/,
V -> high or low vowel
C2 -> final nasal /m/, /n/ or /n/, or a final stop /t/ or /k/
T -> mid, low, rising-falling, high , or falling-rising

17.2.4 Tasks

C21. Experimental Methods in the Study of Hindi Geminate Consonants

21.1 Introduction
long consonants=geminates
Purpose:
provide answers about long consonants or geminates, using an experimental approach in the analysis of Hindi geminates.

The specific topics of this paper:
(a)the duration of geminates and of the vowels preceding them
(b) long distance durational effects
(c)the duration of geminates vis-a-vis clusters and of the vowel preceding these
(d)the syllabification of geminates and the issue of their integrity
(e)the status of "apparent"geminates

21.1.1 Some facts about geminates in Hindi:
1.geminates involve the consonantal closure held for a longer period
2.geminates are not two separate consonants
3.geminates occur only intervocalically
4.geminates are always preceded by short vowels

21.1.2 Diachronic data on development of geminates
(1) Examples of geminate formation in the history of Indo-Aryan
Sanskrit bhakta meal, food > Pali/Prakrit bhatta
Sanskrit sapta seven > Pali/Prakrit satta
Sanskrit dugha-milk > MLA duddha-

c12. A perceptual Bridge Between Coronal and Dorsal /r/

12.1 Introduction

Phonetic variation of rhotics /r/ in Swedish dialects:
(1).front(coronal)/r/
(2).back(dorsal)/r/

Region of back /r/ :
western European
English
Italian
Czech
Estonian
working-class varieties of rural communities


The complementary distribution between [R] and [r] in southern Swedish dialects:
/r/: back only in intitial postion , after a short stressed vowel

Front and back /r/ have provided a basis for lexcal contrast in Occitan

Why would [r] change into [R] (or vice versa)?
How does sound change begin?

Purpose :
(1)to establish an articulary-acoustic reference for /r/ types
(2)to evaluate the articulatory-acoustic relationship
(3)to synthesize an /r/ continuum situated in the F2-F3 area in question

Compositional Structure in Taiwanese Sourthern Min

Journal Reading:
Compositional Structure in Taiwanese Sourthern Min

From:
Language And Linguistics 5.4:1003-1318, 2004


Key words:
rhyming patterns
syllable contraction
energy amplitude

Daniel Jones~Phonetician

Daniel Jones (12 September 1881 – 4 December 1967) was a London-born British phonetician. A pupil of Paul-Édouard Passy, professor of phonetics at the École des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne (University of Paris), Daniel Jones is considered by many to be the greatest phonetician of the early 20th century.


Biography

Three Dimensional Phonology

Representative:
Morris Halle
Jean-Roger Vergnaud