scholarly journals Notes on a Special Feature of Greek Orthoepy: Use of a Non-Nasal Consonant for Representing the Velar Nasal

Humanitas ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 67 ◽  
pp. 83-91
Author(s):  
Brian F. Head
Keyword(s):  
Roman Script ◽  
Nasal Consonant

This study describes the contexts in which the letter gama is used in order to represent the velar nasal, it presents a hypothesis as to the origin of this consonant in Greek, and it considers a problem that results from the inadequate representation of Greek etyma in Roman script, as revealed in data from various dictionaries of Portuguese and other languages.http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2183-1718_67_4

Forward Coarticulation of Velar Movement at Marked Junctural Boundaries

1973 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 286-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael McClean
Keyword(s):  
High Speed ◽  
Nasal Consonant

The effects of marked junctural boundaries on the onset of forward velar coarticulation were studied using high-speed cinefluorographic techniques. Three subjects were filmed while producing a constant CVVN sequence with a variety of prosodically marked boundaries falling between the two vowels. Frame-by-frame tracings made of the velum and associated reference structures yielded plots of velar movement over the CVVN sequence. The results showed that the onset of forward coarticulation to the nasal consonant was consistently delayed in those cases where marked junctural boundaries were present. Previous data on velar coarticulation at unmarked boundaries were corroborated, and two patterns of velar movement are described.

Velumtätigkeit bei der Erzeugung stimmhafter und stimmloser Nasalkonsonanten im Isländischen

1981 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magnús Pétursson
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Patterns ◽  
Stop Consonants ◽  
The South ◽  
Research Instrument ◽  
North West ◽  
South West ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Nasal Consonant

In modern Icelandic, spoken in the South, West, and North-West of Iceland, there is a phonemic opposition between voiced and voiceless nasals before stop consonants. For the present investigation the research instrument was the velograph. The purpose of the research was to investigate patterns of velar movement associated with each type of nasal consonants. The results show different types of velar movement organized according to two separate temporal patterns. For the voiceless nasals the movement of the velum is more rapid and begins earlier than for the voiced nasals. There are also significant differences in the nasalization of the preceding vowel according to whether the following nasal consonant is voiced or voiceless.

The Palatal Closure Efficiency Index: A New Speaker-Centered Aerodynamic Metric for the Evaluation of Velopharyngeal Function During Speech

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 368-374
Author(s):  
David J. Zajac ◽  
Juliana Powell ◽  
Laura Perotta
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Outcome ◽  
Speech Production ◽  
Efficiency Index ◽  
Gap Size ◽  
Pressure Flow ◽  
Meaningful Information ◽  
Nasal Consonant ◽  
Velopharyngeal Function

Purpose Pressure-flow testing provides clinicians with estimates of velopharyngeal (VP) gap size during speech production. Traditionally, adequacy of VP function has been based on absolute area criteria. This clinical focus article provides a brief overview of pressure-flow testing and introduces the palatal closure efficiency index, a speaker-centered metric to interpret findings. Conclusions The palatal closure efficiency index provides information on a speaker's ability to achieve VP closure during oral plosives relative to his/her own VP opening during a nasal consonant. This approach provides both clinicians and patients with more meaningful information to interpret pressure-flow findings for both diagnostic and treatment outcome purposes.

scholarly journals Nominal Inflection of the Tutsa Language

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 138-140
Author(s):  
Hemanta Konch
Keyword(s):  
South East Asia ◽  
Language Family ◽  
Arunachal Pradesh ◽  
Folk Tales ◽  
North East ◽  
Nominal Inflection ◽  
Roman Script ◽  
A Minor ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Assamese Language

North-East is a hub of many ethnic languages. This region constitutes with eight major districts; like-Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Meghalaya and Sikkim. Tutsa is a minor tribe of Arunachal Pradesh. The Tutsa was migrated from the place ‘RangkhanSanchik’ of the South-East Asia through ‘Hakmen-Haksan’ way to Arunachal Pradesh. The Tutsa community is mainly inhabited in Tirap district and southern part of Changlang district and a few people are co-exists in Tinsukia district of Assam. The Tutsa language belongs to the Naga group of Sino-Tibetan language family. According to the Report of UNESCO, the Tutsa language is in endangered level and it included in the EGIDS Level 6B. The language has no written literature; songs, folk tales, stories are found in a colloquial form. They use Roman Script. Due to the influence of other languages it causes lack of sincerity for the use of their languages in a united form. Now-a-days the new generation is attracted for using English, Hindi and Assamese language. No study is found till now in a scientific way about the language. So, in this prospect the topic Nominal Inflection of the Tutsa Language has been selected for study. It will help to preserve the language and also help in making of dictionary, Grammar and language guide book.

Is the consonant primacy script-universal or script-specific? Evidence from non-Roman script Korean Hangul

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 1085-1106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hye K. Pae ◽  
Sungbong Bae ◽  
Kwangoh Yi
Keyword(s):  
Roman Script ◽  
Korean Hangul

The epigraphic and linguistic situation in the south-west of the Iberian peninsula

2019 ◽  
pp. 109-137
Author(s):  
J. Ferrer ◽  
N. Moncunill
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Writing System ◽  
The South ◽  
Personal Names ◽  
South West ◽  
Weak Points ◽  
Nasal Consonant

This chapter’s analysis of the language of the south-west Iberian peninsula concludes that it consists of five vowels, one lateral consonant, one vibrant (plus another doubtful example), one nasal consonant, two sibilants, and three stops (occlusives) although the writing system does not enable us to make more precise statements about the latter; the frequent and non-existent combinations between the different phonemes are also established. The successive attempts to decipher the language are described, special attention being paid to the most recent of them, the weak points of which are specified, and the minimal contribution of Latinized personal names is pointed out.

An Output-Output analysis of German i-truncations

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Katharina S Schuhmann
Keyword(s):  
Output Analysis ◽  
Nasal Consonant

This paper argues for an Output-Output-analysis of i-truncations in German and shows that Sympathy Theory is not necessary to analyze German i-truncations (contra Ito & Mester 1997). I further argue that German i-truncations and reduplications are not the same phenomenon (contra Wiese 2001), although i-truncations and reduplicated forms in German (such as lari-fari, ‘nonsense’) both have an /i/-morpheme. The crucial restrictions on word-medial consonant sequences in German i-truncations can be explained with the syllable contact principle (“SyllCont”), the requirement for nasal-consonant sequences to be homorganic (“NasCodaCond”) (Féry 1997), and a prohibition of complex margins in unstressed syllables (“PrefLaw” & “NoComplMargins”).

Nasalization Amplitude-Timing Characteristics of Speakers With and Without Cleft Palate

2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Youkyung Bae
Keyword(s):  
Cleft Palate ◽  
Model Fit ◽  
Temporal Domain ◽  
Temporal Relationships ◽  
Practical Guidelines ◽  
Rate Controlled ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Nasal Consonant ◽  
Accuracy Rates ◽  
Nasal Resonance

Objectives: To examine the amplitude-temporal relationships of acoustic nasalization in speakers with a range of nasality and to determine the extent to which each domain independently predicts the speaker’s perceived oral-nasal balance. Design: Rate-controlled speech samples, consisting of /izinizi/, /azanaza/, and /uzunuzu/, were recorded from 18 participants (14 with repaired cleft palate and 4 without cleft palate) using the Nasometer. The mean nasalance of the entire mid-vowel–nasal consonant–vowel (mid-VNV) sequence (amplitude-domain) and the duration of the nasalized segment of the mid-VNV sequence (temporal-domain) were obtained based on nasalance contours. Results: Strong linear and vowel-dependent relationships were observed between the 2 domains of nasalization (adjusted R2 = 71.5%). Both the amplitude- and temporal-domain measures were found to reliably predict the speaker’s perceived oral-nasal balance, with better overall model fit and higher classification accuracy rates observed in /izinizi/ and /uzunuzu/ than in /azanaza/. Despite poor specificity, the temporal-domain measure of /azanaza/ was found to have a strong correlation with the participants’ Zoo passage nasalance scores ( rs = .897, p < .01), suggesting its potential utility as a severity indicator of perceived nasality. Conclusions: With the use of relatively simple speech tasks and measurements representing the amplitude and temporal domains of nasalization, the present study provided practical guidelines for using the Nasometer in assessing patients with oral-nasal resonance imbalance. Findings suggest that both domain measures of nasalization should be examined across different vowel contexts, given that each domain may provide clinically relevant, yet different, information.

The systematization and typology of the instant messaging writing system used by young Israeli Arabs

2008 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandy Habib ◽  
Dennis Kurzon
Keyword(s):  
Instant Messaging ◽  
Computer Mediated Communication ◽  
Writing System ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Israeli Arabs ◽  
Roman Script

This study investigates a new writing system based on the Roman script that has been used by Israeli Arabs in Israel for about ten years. This system is associated with instant messaging (IM); people usually use it when sending SMSs or when utilizing any of the computer-mediated communication forms, such as Messenger. The paper focuses on the systematization and the typology of this writing system based on data collected from about 40 participants studying in the same school. The results show that most of the participants have used this system systematically, and that this system can be classified as a developing alphabet.

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