14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-14)San Francisco, CA, USA |
Laryngographically (EGG) derived closed quotient (CQ) was used to trace investigate phonation types in Wa. The laryngeal activity responsible for phonation types is divided into two categories: firstly, the adjustment of laryngeal tension settings for the typically slightly tense vs. slightly lax phonation types of the suprasegmental register contrast; secondly, glottal abduction-adduction gestures causing extreme changes in CQ in the articulation of segmental /?/, /h/, and the aspiration of stops or sonorants. Neutralisation of the register contrast after initials involving a laryngeal gesture suggests that the occurence of a distinctive phonatory setting following such a gesture may be physiologically or articulatorily constrained.
Bibliographic reference. Watkins, Justin (1999): "CQ of laryngeal gestures and settings in Wa", In ICPhS-14, 1017-1020.