Amanda Miller-Ockhuizen

The Phonetics and Phonology of Gutturals (eBook, PDF)

A Case Study from Ju 'hoansi

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book is the first detailed investigation and description of phonotactic sound patterns affecting Khoesan click consonant inventories.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135884826
• Artikelnr.: 38403647

Autorenporträt

Amanda Miller-Ockhuizen is an Assistant Professor within the Linguistics Department at Cornell University, and the Director of the Cornell Phonetics Lab. She has published articles on the phonetics and phonology click consonants, as well as the phonetics and phonology of guttural consonants and vowels in Khoesan languages.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Appendices List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Preface
Part I: Phonetics and Phonology of Ju 'hoansi 1 Introduction 2 The
phonetics of Ju 'hoansi Guttural Consonants and Vowels 2.0. Introduction
2.1. Root Shape Inventory 2.2. Tone Inventory 2.3. Consonant Inventory
2.3.1. The Obstruent Inventory 2.3.2. Some Phonetic Properties of
Ju 'hoansi Click Consonants 2.3.2.1. Click Modulation 2.3.2.2. Click type
differences 2.3.3. Phonetic Properties of Guttural vs. Non-Guttural Clicks
2.3.3.1. Closure Properties of Non-guttural clicks 2.3.3.2. Release
Properties of Guttural clicks 2.3.4. Phonetic Properties of Sonorant
Consonants 2.4. The Vowel Inventory 2.5. Parallels Between Guttural
Consonants and Vowels 2.6. Conclusion 3 Ju 'hoansi Phonotactics 3.0.
Introduction 3.1. Recorded Database 3.2. Word Minimality and Maximality
3.2.1. Word Minimality 3.2.2. Word Maximality 3.2.3. Constraints on Word
Size 3.2.4. Conclusion 3.3. Guttural Feature Specification 3.4. Positional
specification 3.1.1. Positional Specification of Manner Features 3.4.1.1.
Frequency of Initial Clicks Based on Perceptual Salience 3.4.2. Positional
specification of Gutturals 3.4.3. Conclusion 3.5. Co-occurrence
restrictions 3.5.1. Laryngeal co-occurrence restriction 3.5.2. Tone &
Guttural Co-occurrence restrictions 3.5.2.1. Description of Root Tonal
Patterns 3.5.2.2. Tone & Guttural V Co-occurrence Restrictions 3.5.2.3.
Tone & Guttural C Co-occurrence Restrictions 3.5.3. [pharyngeal] and other
place Co-occurrence Restrictions 3.5.4. [pharyngeal] and Vowel Height
Co-occurrence Restrictions 3.6. Functional Unity of Constraints 3.7.
Conclusion Part II: A Quantitative Acoustic Case Study: Auditory Grounding
of the Guttural OCP 4 Methods for Acoustic Case Study 4.0. Introduction
4.1. Materials for Acoustic Study 4.2. Data Collection and Preparation
4.2.1. Labeling 4.2.2. Pitch Period Determination 4.3. Acoustic measures of
periodicity 4.3.1. Spectral Slope (H1-H2) 4.3.2. Harmonics-to-Noise Ratio
4.3.1. Jitter 5 Acoustic Case Study 5.0. Introduction 5.1.
Harmonics-to-Noise Ratio 5.1.1. Guttural Coarticulation: HNR 5.1.2.
Guttural Vowels: HNR 5.1.3. Parallels Between Guttural Consonants and
Vowels 5.1.4. Conclusion 5.2. Spectral Slope 5.2.1. Guttural Coarticulation
5.2.2. Guttural Vowels 5.2.3. Parallels Between Guttural Consonants and
Vowels 5.2.4. Conclusion 5.3. Jitter (PPQ) 5.4. Conclusion 6 Conclusion
Index References APPENDICES A Wordlist for Acoustic Study B Place
Co-occurrence Tables