Nasal coarticulation in Bininj Kunwok: An aerodynamic analysis

摘要: 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 measurements speech to investigate patterns nasalization nasal articulation compare with Australian languages more generally. role coarticulation ensuring compre-hensibility key question phonetics research today is explored. Nasal aerodynamics measured intervocalic, word-medial nasals five female speakers BKw data are analyzed using Smoothing Spline Analysis Variance (SSANOVA) Functional Data averaging techniques. Results show that VNV sequence there very little vowel no restriction on carryover for following vowel. maximum peak flow delayed until oral release coronal articulations, indicating velum opening gesture. Patterns appears similar airflow French non-nasalized vowels plus environments (Delvaux et al. 2008). Findings use specific strategies order limit enhancing place cues at site intonational prominence which also location majority contrasts within language. suggest enhancement coarticulatory resistance prosodically prominent VN VNC sequences we interpret evidence maintaining phonological contrast enhance cues.