Article

Name: Consonants voicing in Surgut Khanty based on electroglottography data

Authors: T. V. Timkin

Institute of Philology of the SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

In the section Лингвистика

Abstract:

This paper presents an experimental phonetic study of consonant voicing in Surgut Khanty conducted with one na-tive speaker of the Trom-Agan sub-dialect using a Rose Medical EGG-D200 laryngograph and icSpeech software. The vocal cord activity was assessed non-invasively with sensors on the speaker’s throat. The recordings were seg-mented and annotated via Praat software and then statistically processed with the Emu-SDMS corpus manager and R programming language. A voicing rate was calculated as the relative duration of the sound segment defining the fundamental frequency. Over 770 sound segments were processed. The obstruent consonants /p/, /t/, /c͡ç/, /k/, /s/, /ɬ/, and /ʎ̥/ were pronounced voicelessly, partially voiced in intervocalic position but never having sonants’ and vowels’ typical values. The obstruent consonants had the voicing coefficients of 0–0,44, with the mean values for different phonemes of 0,02–0,06, while vowels feature the voicing coefficients of 0,44–0,89 and the mean values of 0,53–0,82. The sonor consonants /m/, /n/, /r/, /j/, /ɣ/, /ɲ/, /ŋ/, and /w/ were pronounced as voiced in the initial and medial positions. In the final position, the sonor consonants were realized as devoiced or voiceless depending on the syntagmatic conditions, with the voicing coefficients of 0–0,83 and average values of 0,4–0,63. The paper provides oscillograms and glottograms for the sounds investigated. A control evaluation was conducted using the acoustic data. The comparison of the consonant voicing data from the audio recording and glottography revealed only the latter method to accurately detect a boundary of the voiced segment.

Keywords: Khanty language, Surgut dialect, consonant system, consonant voicing, electroglottography, laryngograph

Bibliography:

Boersma P., Weenink D. Praat: doing phonetics by computer [Computer program]. Version 6.1.17. URL: http://www.praat.org/. (accessed 15.06.2023)

Chepregi M. Surgutskiy dialekt khantyyskogo yazyka [Surgut dialect of Khanty]. Khanty-Mansiysk, 2016, 180 p. (In Russ.).

Dicanio Ch. The Phonetics of Fortis and Lenis Consonants in Itunyoso Trique. International Journal of American Linguistics. 2012, vol. 78, no. 2, pp. 239–272.

Howson P., Komova E., Gick B. Czech trills revisited: An ultrasound EGG and acoustic study. Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 2014, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 115–132.

Koryakov Yu. B., Davidyuk T. I., Evstigneeva A. P., Syuryun A. A. Spisok yazykov Rossii (elektronnyy resurs) [The chart of languages of Russia (electronic resource). URL: http://jazykirf.iling-ran.ru/list_2022.shtml. (accessed 25.08.2023) (In Russ.).

Lindsey G., Katrina H., Haruna A. Hausa Glottalic Consonants: A Laryngographic Study. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 1922, vol. 55, no. 3 (1992), pp. 511–527.

Lyapina P. A. Issledovanie distributsii zvonkikh frikativnykh soglasnykh surgutskogo dialekta khantyyskogo yazyka s pomoshch’yu metodov ostsillografii i spektrografii [Research of distribution of voiced fricative consonants of the Surgut dialect of the Khanty language by oscillography and spectrography]. Bulletin of Ugric studies. 2022, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 463–475. (In Russ.).

Michaud A., Xueguang Н. Reassociated tones and coalescent syllables in Naxi (Tibeto-Burman). Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 2007, vol. 37, no. 3, pp. 237–255.

Pan H. Glottalization of Taiwan Min checked tones. Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 2017, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 37–63.

Tereshkin N. I. Slovar’ vostochnokhantyyskikh dialektov [East Khanty dialects dictionary]. Leningrad, Nauka, 1981, 544 p. (In Russ.).

Timkin T. V. Akusticheskie kharakteristiki soglasnykh fonem surgutskogo dialekta khantyyskogo yazyka [Acoustic characteristics of consonant phonemes of the Surgut dialect of the Khanty language]. Vestnik NSU. Series: Linguistics and Intercultural Communication. 2021, no. 19 (1), pp. 106–116. (In Russ.).

Timkin T. V. Profili peredney chasti yazyka v nastroykakh soglasnykh fonem surgutskogo dialekta khantyyskogo yazyka po dannym elektromagnitnoy artikulografii [Shapes of the coronal section of the tongue of the consonant phonemes in Surgut Khanty according to electromagnetic articulography data]. Siberian Journal of Philology. 2020, no. 3, pp. 156–170. (In Russ.).

Urtegeshev N. S. Lateral’noshhelevye, oboznachaemye grafemami ԓ i љ, v Surgutskom dialekte khantyyskogo yazyka [Lateral fricatives marked with the ԓ and љ letters in Surgut Khanty]. Bulletin of Ugric studies. 2019, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 100–109. (In Russ.).

Verte L. A. Konsonantizm khantyyskogo yazyka (eksperimental’noe issledovanie) [Consonant system of Khanty language (an experimental study)]. Novosibirsk, Sibirskiy khronograf, 2003, 330 p. (In Russ.).

Vieiro M. Electroglottography. In: Courses on Speech Prosody. Meireles A. R. (Ed.). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2015, pp. 52–97.

Winkelmann R., Harrington J., Jänsch K. EMU-SDMS: Advanced speech database management and analysis in R. Computer Speech & Language. 2017, vol. 45, pp. 392–410.