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Acoustical Representation Of Allophones Of The Phoneme /A/ Of The Teleut Language

Table 1:

Word form, meaning, speaker Transcription, position in a word form Spectrum of vowel /a/
F1 F2 Comment
tash ‘stone’ ТА tЫ ̈ѹʃ cVc 531.3 1663.7 Vowels have 4th (sp. ТА) and 5th (sp. ТG, CV) openness degree; they are central (sp. ТА, ТG) or fronted-central (sp. CV).
tash ‘stone’ ТG tɐ͇ʃ cVc 732.6 1850.4
tash ‘stone’ CV tɐѹʃ cVc 761.8 1969.8
Maj ‘summer’ ТА MДѹj cVc 541.5 2465.0 These allophones are fronted with 4th openness degree (all speakers).
Maj ‘summer’ ТG MД͇j cVc 542.0 2136.1
Maj ‘summer’ CV MДѹjѢM cVc 523.5 2438.2
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