Journal article
Nasal coarticulation in Bininj Kunwok: An aerodynamic analysis
Hywel M Stoakes, Janet M Fletcher, Andrew R Butcher
Journal of the International Phonetic Association | Cambridge University Press (CUP) | Published : 2020
Abstract
Bininj Kunwok (BKw), a language spoken in Northern Australia, restricts the degree of anticipatory nasalization, as suggested by previous aerodynamic and acoustic analyses (Butcher 1999). The current study uses aerodynamic measurements of speech to investigate patterns of nasalization and nasal articulation in Bininj Kunwok to compare with Australian languages more generally. The role of nasal coarticulation in ensuring language compre-hensibility a key question in phonetics research today is explored. Nasal aerodynamics is measured in intervocalic, word-medial nasals in the speech of five female speakers of BKw and data are analyzed using Smoothing Spline Analysis of Variance (SSANOVA) and ..
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Awarded by ARC Discovery Project
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Funding Acknowledgements
We would like to thank first, and foremost the participants in this study as well as all of the residents of Mamardawerre outstation for their patience, generosity and guidance. Many thanks to the editor Amalia Arvaniti, three anonymous reviewers, Debbie Loakes, Rosey Billington, Raphael Winkelmann and the Postdoc Reading Group at The University of Melbourne for their comments; all errors remain our own. Thanks also to Prof. Nick Evans and Dr. Murray Garde for assistance at the inception of this project. This research formed part of the Ph.D. dissertation of Hywel Stoakes submitted to the Department of Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. Funding was provided by the ARC Discovery Project, DP0557540 and the Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, CoE14010004.