Phonetic correlates to Khalkha Mongolian vowel contrasts: duration, formants and voice quality

IF 0.5 3区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Journal of East Asian Linguistics Pub Date : 2023-10-27 DOI:10.1007/s10831-023-09262-w

Michael J. Kenstowicz

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Abstract The paper reports the results of an analysis of acoustic correlates to phonological contrasts in vowel length, quality and pharyngeal width with data from five native speakers of the Khalkh dialect. The study replicates Svantesson’s (1985) discovery of a chain-shift rotation of the round vowels in their presumed evolution from Classical Mongolian. Analysis with VoiceSauce (Shue et al. in: Proceedings of the ICPhS XVII, 1846–1849, 2009) finds that in addition to the first formant, the harmonics-to-noise ratio is a reliable indicator of the ATR versus RTR contrast that has been hypothesized to be the basis of the language’s vowel harmony.

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摘要:本文报道了对五位以Khalkh方言为母语的人的元音长度、音质和咽部宽度的声学相关分析结果。该研究重复了Svantesson(1985)的发现，即圆形元音在其假定的从古典蒙古语进化而来的链式旋转。使用VoiceSauce进行分析(Shue et al. in: Proceedings of the ICPhS XVII, 1846-1849, 2009)发现，除了第一个形成峰外，谐波噪声比是ATR与RTR对比的可靠指标，该对比被假设为语言元音和谐的基础。

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期刊介绍： The study of East Asian languages, especially of Chinese, Japanese and Korean, has existed for a long time as a field, as demonstrated by the existence of programs in most institutions of higher learning and research that include these languages as a major component. Speakers of these three languages have shared a great deal of linguistic heritage during the development of their languages through cultural contacts, in addition to possible genealogical linkage. These languages accordingly possess various common features. Another important factor that ties them together as a field is that they have shared a common tradition of linguistic scholarship, a tradition that distinguishes itself from the study of western languages. Against this tradition, much recent work has approached these languages from a broader perspective beyond the area, considering them within contexts of general theoretical research, bringing new lights to old problems in the area and contributing to current issues in linguistic theory. But there continues to be good reason for scholars working in this approach to hold a special interest in each other''s work. Especially with the amount of most recent theoretical work on these languages, the field of theoretical East Asian linguistics has been fast growing. The purpose of the Journal of East Asian Linguistics is to provide a common forum for such scholarly activities, and to foster further growth that will allow the field to benefit more from linguistic theory of today, and enable the languages to play a more important role in shaping linguistic theory of tomorrow.

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