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An acoustic exploration of sibilant contrasts and sibilant merger in Mixean Basque

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This exploratory study investigates sibilants in Mixean Low Navarrese, an endangered variety of Basque. This variety has been described with ten different contrastive sibilants: /s̻, s̺, ʃ, t͡s̻, t͡s̺, t͡ʃ, z̻, z̺, ʒ, d͡z̺/. The objective of the paper is to (a) provide a detailed description of the acoustics of Mixean sibilants, and (b) elucidate whether ten categories can be proposed based only on acoustical data, or whether fewer categories should be considered. The study is based on free-conversation data of ten subjects (three females, seven males) aged between 80 and 85 years. We analyze metrics reflecting the place of articulation (spectral moments, and especially the center of gravity (CoG)), including also the temporal dynamics of CoG (using the discrete cosine transform of CoG measurements of nine intervals of each phone). We also explore the acoustic correlates of the contrasts between (a) voiced and voiceless sounds and (b) fricative and affricate sounds. The results show that only seven categories can be proposed based on acoustic measurements. The lamino-alveolar series reliably contrasts with the rest, but the distinction does not hold between the apico-alveolar and the postalveolar series. We found minimal differences in the analysis of dynamic data, and none in the static analysis.

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hal-04725604 , version 1 (08-10-2024)

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Ander Egurtzegi, Dorota Krajewska, Christopher Carignan, Iñigo Urrestarazu-Porta. An acoustic exploration of sibilant contrasts and sibilant merger in Mixean Basque. Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 2024, pp.1-30. ⟨10.1017/S0025100324000045⟩. ⟨hal-04725604⟩
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