CV Coarticulation in Yoruba - A Tonal Language
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چکیده
The combinatorial interaction of suprasegmental and contextually induced segmental variations has been shown to produce independent coarticulatory effects. This study extended the locus equation (LE) methodology for the first time to a tonal language, Yoruba, in order to document how variations in tone might interact with CV coarticulation and to understand the patterning of its 4 voiced stops. Tonal variation did not produce significant alterations to F2onset values and hence does not serve as a phonetic factor leading to coarticulatory variation. LEs did show distinct categorical patterning for the voiced labio-velar stop /gb/ in Yoruba.
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