This study is an acoustic investigation of voice quality in Australian English. The speech 33 Indigenous Australians (Aboriginal English speakers) compared to that 28 Anglo [Mainstream (MAE) speakers] from two rural locations Victoria. Analysis F0 and H1*-H2* reveals pitch differ significantly for male speakers according dialect female location. highlights previously undescribed phonetic sociophonetic variability

Infant vocal durations have been studied from a variety of perspectives, including medical, social, and linguistic. The resultant developmental profile across the first 6 months life, however, is still far clear. purpose this study was to evaluate durational properties infant vocalizations unique perspective voice quality. By considering an infant's modal nonmodal qualities, range produced by infants during early life captured.Four Australian English-speaking were recorded for approximately...

Qaqet is a non-Austronesian Baining language of Papua New Guinea, with very small phoneme inventory 16 consonants and four vowels, including the voiced stops /b d ɡ/. These are often phonetically realized as prenasalized [mb nd ŋɡ], this feature assumed to be result contact surrounding Oceanic languages. Our data consist isolated word recordings from six female speakers language. Using range acoustic measures, we compare these non-prenasalized tokens same ɡ/ phonemes, nasal phonemes proper...

(1) Background: Australian Aboriginal English (AAE) is a variety known to differ in various ways from the mainstream, but date very little phonetic analysis has been carried out. This study description of L1 southern Australia, aiming comprehensively describe acoustics vowels, focusing particular on vowels be undergoing change Mainstream English. Previous work focused static measures F1/F2, and here we expand this by adding duration analyses, as well dynamic F1/F2 measures. (2) Methods:...

Abstract Tima has a typologically unusual 12-vowel advanced tongue root (ATR) harmony system, contrasting six [+ATR] vowels /i e ɨ ʌ o u/ with [−ATR] /ɪ ɛ ɘ ɔ ʊ/. This system provides test case for generalisations about ATR systems: example, that is less compatible higher vowels; lower and central are incompatible [ATR] systems. After showing all participate fully in harmony, this article presents an acoustic study of the contrast. We show /ʌ/, counterpart /a/, patterns as mid vowel,...

The duration of three infants' vocalisations were examined during a six-month longitudinal study. In contrast to most other infant research, this study included in its analysis all including those deemed vegetative or having nonmodal voice quality. All infants produced which decreased the initial months. However between 3rd and 5th month significant increase (p<0.001) was found (from mean 207ms 431ms). When analysed using perceptual quality categories, have differences (p<0.05) relative...

A number of researchers have posited a link between voice quality and consonant production (e.g., Keating Esposito 2007). This work investigates the connection acoustics (laryngeal behaviour) realization (supralaryngeal in Australian Englishes. Focusing on speech produced by 52 English speakers (both “mainstream” Aboriginal speakers), we show that vowel-/t/ sequences “breathy” t-categories affricates, fricatives) co-occur with breathier vowels (including those pre-aspiration), while...

The Eastern Polynesian language Tahitian spoken in French Polynesia, is described as having a simple phonological inventory with single stop series: /p, t, ʔ/. Little known about the acoustic properties of these consonants compared to well-resourced languages. Five female speakers produced multiple repetitions tokens that varied terms stress location and prosodic phrase position. Acoustic analyses duration VOT, well voicing measures including fraction strength excitation were conducted. As...