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View article: Acoustic Analysis of Vowels in Australian Aboriginal English Spoken in Victoria
Acoustic Analysis of Vowels in Australian Aboriginal English Spoken in Victoria Open
(1) Background: Australian Aboriginal English (AAE) is a variety known to differ in various ways from the mainstream, but to date very little phonetic analysis has been carried out. This study is a description of L1 Aboriginal English in s…
View article: An acoustic study of ATR in Tima vowels: vowel quality, voice quality and duration
An acoustic study of ATR in Tima vowels: vowel quality, voice quality and duration Open
Tima has a typologically unusual 12-vowel advanced tongue root (ATR) harmony system, contrasting six [+ATR] vowels /i e ɨ ʌ o u/ with six [−ATR] vowels /ɪ ɛ ɘ a ɔ ʊ/. This harmony system provides a test case for generalisations about ATR s…
View article: Voice quality in Australian English
Voice quality in Australian English Open
This study is an acoustic investigation of voice quality in Australian English. The speech of 33 Indigenous Australians (Aboriginal English speakers) is compared to that of 28 Anglo Australians [Mainstream Australian English (MAE) speakers…
View article: Voicing in Qaqet: Prenasalization and language contact
Voicing in Qaqet: Prenasalization and language contact Open
Qaqet is a non-Austronesian Baining language of Papua New Guinea, with a very small phoneme inventory of 16 consonants and four vowels, including the voiced stops /b d ɡ/. These stops are often phonetically realized as prenasalized [mb nd …
View article: Fundamental frequency characteristics of infant vocalisations: a study in voice quality
Fundamental frequency characteristics of infant vocalisations: a study in voice quality Open
No clear picture exists of the f0 developmental pattern of typically developing infants. Methodological differences (e.g. type of vocalisations included for analysis) have been found to contribute to this. This paper approaches the f0 char…
View article: Voice quality methodology: a review of voice quality analysis techniques
Voice quality methodology: a review of voice quality analysis techniques Open
Voice quality has been noted in a number of grammars written on Australian Aboriginal languages (e.g. Nash 1990). In order to further investigate ‘special voice qualities’ we will need to draw from other linguistic studies that have focuse…