Formant indicators of «velarization». Part II

Abstract

In  this  paper,  the  study  of  the  problem  of  determining  velarization  from  acoustic  data and its relationship to articulation continues. The purpose of the study is to identify different types of “velarization”, their articulation and acoustic description. In the course of the study, the methods used at the V.M. Nadelyaev LFEI of the sector of languages of the peoples of Siberia of the IFL SB RAS (Novosibirsk), as well as in the LEFI of the Department of Foreign Languages of the AmSU (Blagoveshchensk). The object of the study is dynamic speech. The subject of the study is “velarization” in languages of different families. The material for the analysis was static and somatic MRI scans and audio recordings recorded at different times by employees (including the author of this work) of the V.M. Nadelyaev LEFI, made on time and after tomography from the appropriate media. Scientific novelty and theoretical significance of the study: the correlation between F₂, articulation and auditory perception of amplifying articulation of hardness – “velarization” is presented for the first time. The materials and results of the research can be used to develop textbooks on general phonetics, at seminars on dynamic speech analysis, and when writing scientific articles on experimental phonetics. The main conclusions presented in this paper are: 1) analysis of somatic material revealed two types of “velarization”: with a deflection on the front of the back of the tongue (“coarsening” of the consonant is stronger) and without; 2) in “velarized” consonants, the graduated opposition to the rise of the back of the tongue is indifferent.