Abstract
This study compares the phonations of 9 languages. Some of the languages use phonation types contrastively, independently of any pitch contrasts (Gujarati: modal, breathy; White Hmong and Black Miao: modal, breathy; Jalapa Mazatec: modal, breathy, creaky; Southern Yi, Bo, and Hani: tense, lax), while some use phonation as correlates of pitch contrasts (White Hmong: creaky low tone; Black Miao: creaky low tone and pressed high tone; Mandarin: creaky low and falling tones; Santiago Matatlán Zapotec and San Juan Guelavia Zapotec: creaky large-falling tone and breathy small-falling tone). Acoustic measures of phonation are compared for all 9 languages, and electroglottographic measures are compared for all but Mazatec. Multi-dimensional scaling of the production measures is then used to derive a lower-dimension phonation space, and the use of that production space by the different languages is compared. [Work supported by NSF]
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