Author(s)

Shunqiang Chen ¹, Renyu Gan ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Southwest Minzu University, Chinese Language and Literature College, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China

Corresponding Author

Shunqiang Chen

ABSTRACT

This study primarily investigates the plosives of the northern Yi dialect, using the phonetic experiment as the research method to collect their physical signals and analyze their acoustic characteristics. In the study, MATLAB, Praat, and other software are employed to process the speech signal. The findings reveal that: (1) The energy distribution of plosives in the Yi language gathers "straight bars" from low frequency to high frequency, and the root tongue sounds /ga/, /ka/, /gga/, /mga/ exhibit double or even triple straight bars; (2) According to the positive and negative VOT parameters and the length of the VOT parameters, the VOT of /ba/, /pa/, /da/, /ta/, /ga/, /ka/ is positive and all are clear. In contrast, the VOT of /bba/, /nba/, /dda/, /nda/, /gga/, /mga/ is negative, implying voiced articulations. Moreover, /pa/, /ta/, /ka/ are found to be aspirated, while /ba/, /ga/, /da/ are not. (3) /nba/, /nda/, /mga/ all have nasal formants, which are proved to be nasal crown voiced plosives.

KEYWORDS

Yi language; plosive; Acoustic characteristics

CITE THIS PAPER

Shunqiang Chen, Renyu Gan, Analysis of the Acoustic Characteristics of the Stops in Northern Yi Dialects. Journal of Sociology and Ethnology (2024) Vol. 6: 19-28. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/jsoce.2024.060304.

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