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• Title:
  Selected Acoustic Features of the Welsh Lateral Fricative /ɫ
• Creator:
  Baran, Michał
• Contributor:
  University of Szczecin;
  michal.baran@usz.edu.pl
• Description:
  The Welsh language exhibits a number of features uncommon from a cross-linguistic point of view, one of which is a relatively large number of fricative phonemes. This paper analyses selected acoustic features of the Welsh lateral fricative /ɬ/ in order to contribute to the debate on the laryngeal system in Welsh and the classification of /ɬ/ within that system. Total articulation length, voicing length and SMA parameters of the friction period are measured and analysed on the basis of recordings of 6 native speakers of Welsh. The results confirm the classification of /ɬ/ as a fortis sound proposed in earlier studies (Asmus and Grawunder 2017, Baran forthcoming) and suggest that the Welsh /ɬ/ may exhibit aspiration.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2025.01.15;
  2024.12.31
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Research in Language;1;
  22
• Subject:
  laryngeal fricative;
  aspiration;
  spectral moments;
  fricatives;
  Welsh consonants
• Identifier:
  1731-7533;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/54214 ;
  10.18778/1731-7533.22.1.03
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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