Glottal stop and glottalization in Lai (connected speech)
In this paper, I focus primarily on glottal stop and glottalization in connected speech in Lai, a Tibeto-Burman (Kuki-Chin-Naga) language spoken in the northwest region of Burma. After some general remarks on glottal stop and glottalization in the world's languages, I list the phonemes of Lai,...
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sg-ntu-dr.10356-1781602024-06-11T05:21:26Z Glottal stop and glottalization in Lai (connected speech) Roengpitya, Rungpat University of California, Berkeley Arts and Humanities In this paper, I focus primarily on glottal stop and glottalization in connected speech in Lai, a Tibeto-Burman (Kuki-Chin-Naga) language spoken in the northwest region of Burma. After some general remarks on glottal stop and glottalization in the world's languages, I list the phonemes of Lai, and proceed to discuss several topics of interest in connection with the phonetics and morphophonemics of glottalization in this language. These include the influence of glottalization on adjacent vowels, and its relationship to vowel length, creaky voice, and sonorant length, as well as certain grammatical functions it has acquired. I also provide spectrograms showing how glottalization is configured in Lai connected speech. Published version 2024-06-11T05:21:25Z 2024-06-11T05:21:25Z 1997 Journal Article Roengpitya, R. (1997). Glottal stop and glottalization in Lai (connected speech). Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, 20(2), 21-56. https://dx.doi.org/10.32655/LTBA.20.2.03 0731-3500 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/178160 10.32655/LTBA.20.2.03 2 20 21 56 en Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area © 1997 The Editor(s). All rights reserved. application/pdf |
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In this paper, I focus primarily on glottal stop and glottalization in connected speech in Lai, a Tibeto-Burman (Kuki-Chin-Naga) language spoken in the northwest region of Burma. After some general remarks on glottal stop and glottalization in the world's languages, I list the phonemes of Lai, and proceed to discuss several topics of interest in connection with the phonetics and morphophonemics of glottalization in this language. These include the influence of glottalization on adjacent vowels, and its relationship to vowel length, creaky voice, and sonorant length, as well as certain grammatical functions it has acquired. I also provide spectrograms showing how glottalization is configured in Lai connected speech. |
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