Abstract

KROHN, Haakon S.. ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS OF THE VOWEL QUALITIES IN THE BRIBRI LANGUAGE. Linguist.lit. [online]. 2022, n.81, pp.32-59.  Epub Feb 15, 2023. ISSN 0120-5587.  https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.lyl.n81a02.

This paper presents the results of a quantitative acoustic study of the vowel formants in Bribri. Specifically, it analyzes the values of the first two formants of all the vowel phonemes pronounced by speakers from the three dialectal areas of this Chibchan language, in two different registers: careful reading and spontaneous speech. The data show very similar patterns in all three dialects and in both styles, with four vowel heights on the phonetic level. The phonemes /e/ and/o/ tend to be realized as mid vowels, while /õ/ is the one that presents the most variation.

Keywords : Bribri language; acoustic phonetics; vowels; formants; quantitative linguistics.

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