Document Type
Article
Abstract
This paper presents the notion of an idealized or communal grammar as a statistical model of mode, mean or median as emerging from a representative number of a population, rather than in individual speech, per se. Like other languages with a 9-vowel Cross Height Vowel Harmony (CHVH) system, the most reliable correlate of ATR is F1; [+ATR] vowels have lower F1 values than their [-ATR] counterparts, while F2 differences show considerable variation across speakers. F1, however, fails to maintain phonological height differences as the [+ATR] mid vowels of level 3 overlap in acoustic space with the [-ATR] high vowels of level 2. Center of Gravity (CoG) mean differences prove to be a reliable means of maintaining phonological height in some cases, emerging also as the model for the whole sample.
Disciplines
Linguistics | Social and Behavioral Sciences
Publication Date
1-1-2007
Language
English
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Anderson, Colleen G. 2007. F1 and center of gravity interplay in the maintenance of phonological height within a statistical model of a communal grammar: the case of Foodo [ATR] acoustics. UTA Working Papers in Linguistics 2.2-29.