TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kashima, Eri
A1  - Williams, Daniel
A1  - Ellison, T. Mark
A1  - Schokkin, Dineke
A1  - Escudero, Paola
T1  - Uncovering the acoustic vowel space of a previously undescribed language: The vowels of Nambo
JF  - The journal of the Acoustical Society of America
N2  - This study presents the first acoustic description of the vowel space of a Papuan language—Nambo, spoken in southern Papua New Guinea—based on duration and first and second formant measurements from 19 adult male and female speakers across three age groups (young, middle-aged, senior). Phonemically, Nambo has six full vowels /i, e, æ, ɑ, o, u/ and a reduced vowel tentatively labeled /ə/. Unlike the full vowels, the quality of /ə/ showed great variation: seniors' and young females' realizations tended to be more open and retracted than those by young males, while middle-aged speakers' productions fell between these two variants.
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4954395
SN  - 0001-4966
SN  - 1520-8524
VL  - 139
SP  - EL252
EP  - EL256
PB  - American Institute of Physics
CY  - Melville
ER  -