Komi-Permyak coronal obstruents: Acoustic contrasts and positional variation

摘要: Komi-Permyak (Finno-Ugric) has a typologically rare contrast between palatal stops and affricates; the latter are also contrastive with postalveolar affricates. In addition, language relatively uncommon three-way place among sibilant fricatives. This paper investigates acoustic properties of voiceless coronal obstruents in different positional contexts. An analysis data from six native speakers revealed that contrasts were well differentiated by combination duration, noise intensity, spectral shapes, vowel transitions - consistently previous studies similar consonants other languages. The results showed some differences realization consonants. Overall, study contributes to better understanding phonetic implementation marked phonological variation; it provides an record endangered language.