It also shows, however, that nasal and nasalized vowels follow different trends. Both of them start very nasal, at point 1. The nasal vowel becomes less nasal than the nasalized vowel at point 2, only to increase nasality again at point 3.
The trend does not happen the same way for the nasalized vowel. While in general terms the nasal and the nasalized low vowel in Brazilian Portuguese do not seem to differ, it seems like the differ based on the time point.
Thus, the prediction that nasal and nasalized vowels in Brazilian Portuguese are different with respect to nasality is supported, even if only at the end of them. The fact that the nasalized vowel does not increase in nasality at the endpoint is odd, because there is a nasal consonant right after it.
Thus, it seems that speakers still maintain different levels of nasality between these two types of vowels likely to enhance contrast.
This agrees with the idea that coarticulation is constrained based on the phoneme contrasts that occur in a given language Manuel, Since Brazilian Portuguese has contrastive nasality, it makes sense that the nasalized vowel would be less nasal because phonologically it is not a nasal vowel, but an oral vowel heavily coarticulated.
Discussion and Conclusion. It was expected that there would be a significant difference in nasality between all three types of vowels, due to the role of coarticulation control as aid in vowel perception. The acoustic parameters to indirectly measure acoustic nasality were the amplitude A1 of the first formant minus the amplitude P0 from the nasal peak in the low harmonics area. This is an indirect measure of the degree of velopharyngeal port opening. The measures were taken at three different time points for each token start point, midpoint, endpoint.
The differences in the amount of nasality between these vowels provided evidence for the constraints in articulation of these sounds and to the enhancement of these sounds perception. The results showed that there is an overall influence of the type of vowel in the amount of acoustic nasality it has. An analysis of overall nasality yielded a significant difference in the degree of nasality between oral and the other two types of vowels.
An analysis by time point demonstrated that nasal and nasalized vowels differ at the endpoint, the nasal vowel being acoustically more nasal than the nasalized vowel. The results seem to be consistent with a possible control of nasal coarticulation to aid speech perception. The fact that there is a nasal consonant following the nasalized vowel should make this vowel, if not more, at least equally nasal to the phonemic nasal vowel.
Phonemic nasal vowels originally had a nasal consonant at their right edge, which conferred them the nasal quality they have today. This is essentially the same context where nasalized vowels occur. Thus, both vowels are acknowledged to be strongly coarticulatorily nasalized: diachronically in the case of phonemic nasal vowels, synchronically in the case of nasalized vowels.
However, if we consider that coarticulation is controlled to enhance the contrast between these two types of vowels, it follows that the nasalized vowel would be less nasal because it has less nasal coarticulation, and languages with a certain phonemic contrasts tend to have less coarticulation with that contrastive feature. Being less nasal at the end point would cue the speaker that there is a nasal consonant coming next in the speech stream, not an oral consonant.
This nasal coarticulatory pattern could be a Brazilian Portuguese specific pattern to resolve the issue of nasality perception. Thus, this difference in nasality implies that coarticulation can be controlled for the benefit of the perceiver, and it is not a mere byproduct of the speech stream that the perceiver factors out when processing the speech signal. Further research should be able to expand these results to other vowel qualities. Phonemic nasal vowels should be more nasal than coarticulatory nasalized vowels regardless of the quality, due to their status as phonemes in Brazilian Portuguese.
Nasalized vowels have a following consonant in a different syllable than phonemic nasal vowels had historically. Perhaps the nasal consonant belonging to the same syllable would cause the vowel to be more nasalized than it belonging to a different syllable.
In this case, less nasality in the nasalized vowel could cue not to a nasal consonant, but actually to a different syllable, so that nasality could actually function as a cue to a boundary, not a segment. Further studies on the perception of these vowels can shed light on these issues. Boersma, P. Praat: doing phonetics by computer [Computer program]. Version 5. Cagliari, L. An experimental study of nasality with particular reference to Brazilian Portuguese.
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Edinburgh, Chen, M. Acoustic correlates of nasalized vowels. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America , Vol. Manuel, S. The role of contrast in limiting vowel-to-vowel coarticulation in different languages. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. Medeiros, B.
Revista de Letras, Vol. Nasal coda and vowel nasality in Brazilian Portuguese. Sommerville: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Rauber, A. An acoustic description of Brazilian Portuguese oral vowels.
Silva, T. Sousa, E. Unpublished master thesis. Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Images are for demo purposes only and are properties of their respective owners. Old Paper by ThunderThemes. Luciana Ferreira Marques University of Colorado, Boulder Introduction Nasality is one of the most characteristic and controversial aspects of Portuguese. Nasality in Acoustic terms While most studies on quantifying nasalization rely on aerodynamic data, Chen proposes an acoustic correlate for nasality that can be fairly easy to measure.
The picture below, taken from Chen , illustrates this point: Fig 01 Spectral slices from oral and nasal vowels. Huffman, Marie, and Rena Krakow, eds. Nasals, nasalization, and the velum. A collection of papers that examine both phonetic and phonological aspects of nasals and nasalization. Topics include the production and perception of nasality, aerodynamic and acoustic properties of nasalized sounds, and the phonological representation of nasal and nasalized sounds.
Ladefoged, Peter. A course in phonetics. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. A phonetics textbook that gives a clear and concise description of the articulatory and acoustic properties of nasals and nasalized sounds, in addition to other information. Ladefoged, Peter, and Ian Maddieson. Oxford: Blackwell. Topics include airflow characteristics of nasals, laryngeal activity in nasals, nasal contours, and nasalized consonants.
Ohala, John J. The phonetics of nasal phonology: Theorems and data. In Nasals, nasalization, and the velum. Edited by Marie Huffman and Rena Krakow, — DOI: Explores how the phonological patterning of nasals can be derived from their phonetic properties.
Silverman, Daniel. A critical introduction to phonology. London: Continuum. A phonology textbook that presents a detailed discussion of the phonetic properties of nasals and shows how these properties are reflected in their phonological behavior.
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