Abstract
Until recently, large-scale phonetic analyses have been out of reach for under-documented languages, but with the advent of methodologies such as forced alignment, they have now become possible. This paper describes a methodology for applying forced alignment (using the Montreal Forced Aligner) to a speech corpus of Matukar Panau, a minority language spoken in Papua New Guinea. We obtained measurements for 68,785 vowel tokens, produced in both narrative and conversational data by 34 speakers. We examined the social conditioning on a subset of these vowels according to traditional sociolinguistic
categories of age and gender, and also consider the impact of clan as a major axis of organization in this community. We show that there is a role for clan as a sociolinguistic factor in conditioning the variation observed.
Original language | English |
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Pages | 1-12 |
Publication status | Published - 2018 |
Event | New Ways of Analyzing Variation 47 - New York Duration: 1 Jan 2018 → … |
Conference
Conference | New Ways of Analyzing Variation 47 |
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Period | 1/01/18 → … |