The canonical theories of tonogenesis distinguish voiced obstruents as the pitch suppressor
of the following vowels whereas their voiceless counterparts are predicted to raise it (Yip …

Our study investigates the nature of tonogenesis in Sylheti, which was triggered by the
merger of aspirated and unaspirated consonants in the language. We propose that the …

This study reports data collected and analyzed from 7 native speakers from a corpus of 70
Sylheti noun words. Our work shows that the loss of [+ spread glottis] feature from [-voice] …

While some phonological mechanisms underlying tonogenesis have been understood for
some time (eg Maspero (1912), Haudricourt (1954), inter alia) ongoing research in …

Few studies focused on the tonal realization of first syllables in disyllabic words with tonal
combination of “canonical tone+ neutral tone” in Mandarin. To fill in the void, the present …

This paper presents an acoustic analysis of fundamental frequency (F0) perturbations
conditioned by voiceless and preglottalized nasals in the speech of 20 speakers of a …

This paper examines the phonetic interactions of tone and voice qualities in Sylheti. Data
from six native speakers are examined to understand the voice qualities of the vowels …

Afrikaans is usually described as having a contrast between prevoiced and voiceless
unaspirated plosives ([b]-[p],[t]-[d]). This study documents an ongoing change in the pre …

In this paper we examine the status of lexical tones in Sylheti. Sylheti is generally
considered to be one of the varieties of Bangla (belonging to the Indo-Aryan language …

It is widely known that the fundamental Frequency (F0) at the onset of a vowel is influenced
by the precedent consonant. That influence varies significantly among languages and it …