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- Title
An acoustic study of Kabardian vowels.
- Authors
Choi, John D.
- Abstract
The results of a spectrographic study of the Kabardian vowel system confirm reports in the literature that phonetic vowel quality in Kabardian is determined by the preceding consonant. The data further show that there are three distinct phonetic categories along the F1 axis in the vowel space, and that the contextually determined variation in vowel coloring generally respects this division. Durationally, a correspondence was found between vowel height and duration. While the durational differences were found to be comparable to those reported in languages with contrastive vowel length, the differences were interpreted as a phonetic strategy to enhance the perceptual salience of the vertical vowel system.
- Publication
Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 1991, Vol 21, Issue 1, p4
- ISSN
0025-1003
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0025100300005958