Article

Name: Obstruent plosive consonants of the second articulatory row in the Yurt-Ora Chat idiom: an acoustic comparative study

Authors: Natalya V. Yakimets

Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia

In the section Фонетика

Abstract:

Thе article examines the obstruent plosive consonants /t/ and /d/ of the Yurt-Ora Chat idiom, spoken in the village of Yurt-Ora in the Novosibirsk Region of Russia. The idiom is considered to exhibit phonetic, lexical, and morphological features that distinguish it from other varieties of the Chat idiom. The study employed a combination of acoustic, auditory, distributional, and comparative analyses. The research material comprised 127 words and 29 phrases containing the consonants in various phonetic positions. Each item was recorded three times and annotated using Speech Analyzer 3.1.2.0. The recordings from eight native speakers were used. The acoustic analysis involved the examination of waveforms and spectrograms, measurement of fundamental frequency (F0), the second formant (F2), intensity, and duration, as well as assessment of articulatory effort. The acoustic results were compared with the findings from the distributional analysis. Based on the obtained data, the phonemic status of /t/ and /d/ was established. The phoneme /t/ is described as an extra-short, moderately tense, hard, moderately aspirated, voiceless obstruent plosive and the phoneme /d/ as a short, moderately tense, hard, unaspirated, voiced obstruent plosive. Both phonemes are articulated with slight raising of the middle part of the tongue toward the palate, without causing palatalization. The F0 data suggest that /d/ is produced with a lower laryngeal position than /t/. The average intensity values differ by approximately 10 dB, consistent with earlier findings for the plosives /p/ and /b/. The comparative analysis shows that the obstruent plosives /t/ and /d/ are most closely aligned with those of the Kalmak idiom of Southern Siberia.

Keywords: front lingual obstruent plosives, Yurt-Ora idiom, acoustic properties, Turkic languages of Siberia

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