Affiliation:
1. Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
Abstract
Abstract
Angami has three-way laryngeal contrasts in stops, i.e., voiced,
voiceless unaspirated, and voiceless aspirated. Apart from that, Angami also has
four phonetically level tones. Due to the level nature of the lexical tones in
Angami, consonantal perturbations could be investigated clearly. The results of
the study showed that the extent of consonantal perturbation depended on the
tonal categories. Voiceless consonantal perturbations were weaker as tone
categories got higher. Conversely, voiced stop consonantal perturbations were
weaker as tone categories got lower. This study also found a systematic
relationship between tone height and VOT duration. High tones induced shorter
VOT, while low tones induced longer VOT.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
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