Abstract
Singletons [m] and [n] and their geminate counterparts [mm] and [nn] occur in Anyi and possibly other African languages. However, to date, virtually nothing is known about the acoustic phonetic properties of these nasals and their murmurs. This paper seeks to remedy the situation by extracting F0, F1, F2, F3, F4, intensity, duration, and bandwidth correlates from them. It also ranks them in order to find out which of these correlate(s) is/are robust for signal intelligibility. The determination of robustness is anchored in Just Noticeable Difference (JND) thresholds that have accumulated over 60 years of groundbreaking psychoacoustic research. The findings to be discussed are based on 2304 tokens extracted from the nasal murmurs of 12 words produced by eight native speakers of Anyi, across three repetitions (8 speakers x 12 words x 3 repetitions x 8 correlates).
Recommended Citation
Koffi, Ettien
(2025)
"THE ACOUSTIC PHONETIC PROPERTIES OF SINGLETON AND GEMINATE BILABIAL AND ALVEOLAR NASAL MURMURS IN ANYI,"
Linguistic Portfolios: Vol. 14, Article 4.
Available at:
https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/stcloud_ling/vol14/iss1/4
