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Selected Acoustic Features of the Welsh Lateral Fricative /ɫ/

dc.contributor.authorBaran, Michał
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-15T13:12:41Z
dc.date.available2025-01-15T13:12:41Z
dc.date.issued2024-12-31
dc.identifier.issn1731-7533
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11089/54214
dc.description.abstractThe Welsh language exhibits a number of features uncommon from a cross-linguistic point of view, one of which is a relatively large number of fricative phonemes. This paper analyses selected acoustic features of the Welsh lateral fricative /ɬ/ in order to contribute to the debate on the laryngeal system in Welsh and the classification of /ɬ/ within that system. Total articulation length, voicing length and SMA parameters of the friction period are measured and analysed on the basis of recordings of 6 native speakers of Welsh. The results confirm the classification of /ɬ/ as a fortis sound proposed in earlier studies (Asmus and Grawunder 2017, Baran forthcoming) and suggest that the Welsh /ɬ/ may exhibit aspiration.en
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiegopl
dc.relation.ispartofseriesResearch in Language;1en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subjectlaryngeal fricativeen
dc.subjectaspirationen
dc.subjectspectral momentsen
dc.subjectfricativesen
dc.subjectWelsh consonantsen
dc.titleSelected Acoustic Features of the Welsh Lateral Fricative /ɫ/en
dc.typeArticle
dc.page.number38-66
dc.contributor.authorAffiliationUniversity of Szczecinen
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dc.contributor.authorEmailmichal.baran@usz.edu.pl
dc.identifier.doi10.18778/1731-7533.22.1.03
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