Abstract
The endangered Betine language, spoken by the Beti people of Côte d'Ivoire, is unstudied despite its critical status. With its classification as a moribund language, urgent efforts are needed to document and preserve its linguistic heritage. Furthermore, the subset of consonants known as fricatives and affricates suffer from a lack of comprehensive data, particularly in African languages. This paper addresses these gaps by conducting an acoustic analysis of Betine fricatives and affricates. The correlates F0, F1, F2, F3, F4, intensity, duration, and CoG are measured from a running speech sample from a native Betine speaker. A total of 416 frication tokens are extracted in order to uncover which correlates are robust for auditory intelligibility. All in all, this paper is a significant contribution to the study of fricatives and affricates of endangered languages.
Recommended Citation
Randolph, Isabella and Koffi, Ettien
(2025)
"AN OVERVIEW OF THE ACOUSTIC PHONETIC PROPERTIES OF BETINE FRICATIVES AND AFFRICATES,"
Linguistic Portfolios: Vol. 14, Article 6.
Available at:
https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/stcloud_ling/vol14/iss1/6
