Abstract
In Modern Mongolian the palatalized vowels [a, ɔ, ʊ] before palatalized consonants are considered as phoneme allophones according to the most scholars. Nevertheless theses palatalized vowels have the distinctive features what could be proved by the minimal pairs and nowadays this question is open and not profoundly studied. The purpose of this work is to determine the acoustic and articulator features of the vowels preceding the palatalized consonants and the corresponding plain vowels of Modern Mongolian, Khalkha dialect. In the introduction, the definitions on the palatalized vowels and the previous traditional, experimental analysis of the palatalized vowels are discussed. Therefore, in the second section we presented the results of comparison of the short palatalized vowels and the corresponding plain vowels: (1) methods of the experimental study, (2) results of the acoustic features of palatalized and plain vowels. In result of this observation the formants, the length and the pitch of the short palatalized vowels differ more or less in comparison with corresponding plain vowels. Keywords : Mongolian, Khalkha dialect, vowel, palatalized, plain, acoustic
Highlights
In phonetics, palatalization refers to any articulation involving a movement of the tongue towards the hard palate
[i] in non initial syllables was reduced and while [i] was lost, the palatalized consonant became phonemic, which influences on preceding pharyngeal vowels
In this study on palatalized vowels, we stick to only phonetic elements of identification, with the exception of phonological pertinence
Summary
Palatalization refers to any articulation involving a movement of the tongue towards the hard palate. From the historic phonetics point of view, the vowel [i] in the second syllable influences and palatalizes preceding consonant and initial vowel: CM (Modern Mongolian) xȯ njĭ / xȯ nʝ (sheep) < MM (Middle Mongolian) qonjin < AM (Ancien Mongolian) qonji < PM (Proto-Mongolian) qonjin [i] in non initial syllables was reduced and while [i] was lost, the palatalized consonant became phonemic, which influences on preceding pharyngeal vowels. This phenomenon demonstrates the abundance of regressive assimilation in Mongolian. In this way we try to give a description of the main phonetic features as stress, intensity, pitch and formants
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