A Phonetic Study of the Velar Glide [w] in Persian
Persian velar glide [w], unlike the palatal glide [j], does not serve a contrastive function in Persian phonology since it has incomplete distribution, occurring only in few words after the mid back vowel /o/. Thus, [w] is described as an allophone of the phoneme /v/. Furthermore, it has been assume...
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| description | Persian velar glide [w], unlike the palatal glide [j], does not serve a contrastive function in Persian phonology since it has incomplete distribution, occurring only in few words after the mid back vowel /o/. Thus, [w] is described as an allophone of the phoneme /v/. Furthermore, it has been assumed that [w] in [ow] may be deleted in connected speech giving rise to the compensatory lengthening of the preceding [o] vowel. In the present research, we examined the phonetic realization [w] in Persian words in an experimental study. The results suggested that [w] is acoustically present in the target words but is reduced or weakened to different degrees. As [w] is reduced in [ow], the shape of the vocal tract as well as the phonation type changes, resulting in (1) increase of overall intensity of the spectrum; (2) increase in the formant frequencies; and (3) decrease in bandwidths of the formant frequencies. All these systematic acoustic variations cause the vowel [o] in [ow] to be produced and perceived as longer than an ordinary [o] vowel |
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| spelling | doaj.art-181c3bcfc10f4cc3846600647fcb4c5b2024-01-02T11:01:22ZfasAllameh Tabataba'i University Press̒Ilm-i Zabān2423-77282538-25512018-03-015719716910.22054/ls.2019.36948.11439263A Phonetic Study of the Velar Glide [w] in Persianvahid sadeghi0Banafshe Mardan1Department of English language and linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, Imam Khomeini International UniversityM.A. in Linguistics, English Language and Linguistics Department, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, IranPersian velar glide [w], unlike the palatal glide [j], does not serve a contrastive function in Persian phonology since it has incomplete distribution, occurring only in few words after the mid back vowel /o/. Thus, [w] is described as an allophone of the phoneme /v/. Furthermore, it has been assumed that [w] in [ow] may be deleted in connected speech giving rise to the compensatory lengthening of the preceding [o] vowel. In the present research, we examined the phonetic realization [w] in Persian words in an experimental study. The results suggested that [w] is acoustically present in the target words but is reduced or weakened to different degrees. As [w] is reduced in [ow], the shape of the vocal tract as well as the phonation type changes, resulting in (1) increase of overall intensity of the spectrum; (2) increase in the formant frequencies; and (3) decrease in bandwidths of the formant frequencies. All these systematic acoustic variations cause the vowel [o] in [ow] to be produced and perceived as longer than an ordinary [o] vowelhttps://ls.atu.ac.ir/article_9263_fe1f9bebfc0d5477c2b9b0e54e7b06a9.pdfvelar glide [w]phonological distributionacoustic variationsdurationweakening |
| spellingShingle | vahid sadeghi Banafshe Mardan A Phonetic Study of the Velar Glide [w] in Persian ̒Ilm-i Zabān velar glide [w] phonological distribution acoustic variations duration weakening |
| title | A Phonetic Study of the Velar Glide [w] in Persian |
| title_full | A Phonetic Study of the Velar Glide [w] in Persian |
| title_fullStr | A Phonetic Study of the Velar Glide [w] in Persian |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Phonetic Study of the Velar Glide [w] in Persian |
| title_short | A Phonetic Study of the Velar Glide [w] in Persian |
| title_sort | phonetic study of the velar glide w in persian |
| topic | velar glide [w] phonological distribution acoustic variations duration weakening |
| url | https://ls.atu.ac.ir/article_9263_fe1f9bebfc0d5477c2b9b0e54e7b06a9.pdf |
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