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Final Consonants and Glottalization: New Perspectives from Hanoi Vietnamese

  • A. Michaud
Published/Copyright: January 18, 2005
Phonetica
From the journal Phonetica Volume 61 Issue 2-3

Abstract

The evolution from final obstruents to final glottal stop and then to rhymeglottalization (i.e. from /at/ to /aʔ/, then to /aˀ/) is a well-established general trendin the history of the Sino-Tibetan language family and beyond. It has further beenshown by laryngoscopy that in three languages which retain the nonreleasedsyllable-final obstruents /p/, /t/ and /k/ (Standard Thai, and two Chinese dialects),these obstruents are often accompanied by a glottal stop. The present researchraises the issue whether there is another typological possibility: can nonreleasedfinal obstruents be accompanied consistently by modal phonation, without glottalstop? Analysis of electroglottographic recordings of 126 syllables in two carriersentences spoken by 4 speakers shows that, in Hanoi Vietnamese, the final obstruents/p/, /t/ and /k/ are not accompanied by glottalization, and that the open quotientincreases in the course of the syllable rhyme. Obstruent-final rhymes (whichmay carry either of two tones: D1 or D2) are compared with nasal-final rhymeswhich, under one of the tones (tone B2), are confirmed to be glottalized. Our findingis that tones D1 and D2 (i.e. obstruent-final rhymes) are both produced inmodal voice, which shows that the typological paradigm of observed realizationsof syllable-final obstruents must be enlarged. The discussion puts forward thehypothesis that the unusual association of segments and voice quality found inHanoi Vietnamese is a strategy to maintain the opposition between B2-tone andD2-tone rhymes.

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Published Online: 2005-01-18
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© 2005 S. Karger AG, Basel

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Articles in the same Issue

  1. Call for Papers
  2. Progress in Experimental Phonology
  3. Original Paper
  4. Release Bursts in English Word-Final Voiceless Stops Produced by Native English and Korean Adults and Children
  5. La perception du débit en langue seconde
  6. Underlying Voicing in Majorcan Catalan Word-Final Stop-Liquid Clusters
  7. Further Section
  8. Final Consonants and Glottalization: New Perspectives from Hanoi Vietnamese
  9. Original Paper
  10. Voice Register in Suai (Kuai): An Analysis of Perceptual and Acoustic Data
  11. Obituary
  12. In Memoriam
  13. Review
  14. Publications Received for Review
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