Abstract
![CDATA[Vowels in child-directed speech (CDS) can differ from those in adult-directed speech (ADS) in the same language. Some speech communities, including in Papua New Guinea (PNG), are said to lack special CDS styles. The present study compares vowel acoustics and duration in CDS and ADS for the Papuan language Nungon of PNG. Vowels in conversations between two mothers and their children (2;2 and 3;2) are compared with vowels in monologues by two other women. Multi-point phonetic analyses were applied to evaluate formant trajectories for all six phonemic vowels in CDS and ADS. Preliminary analyses suggest that formant trajectories in CDS are similar to those in ADS, but F0 range variation differs significantly, and the ADS duration difference between short and long vowels is reduced in CDS. These results suggest that vowels in Nungon CDS follow an established cross-linguistic pattern in the ways they differ from ADS vowels.]]
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS2019), 5-9 August 2019, Melbourne, Australia |
| Publisher | Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association |
| Pages | 1714-1718 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780646800691 |
| Publication status | Published - 2019 |
| Event | International Congress of Phonetic Sciences - Duration: 5 Aug 2019 → … |
Conference
| Conference | International Congress of Phonetic Sciences |
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| Period | 5/08/19 → … |
Open Access - Access Right Statement
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Australia license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/)Keywords
- Nungon language
- hearing
- speech
- vowels