Артикуляторные особенности барабинско-татарской фонемы /i⊧/ (по данным МРТ)
Articulatory peculiarities of the Baraba-Tatar phoneme /i⊧/ (on MRI data)

Summary/Abstract: The paper considers the articulatory features of the Baraba-Tatar sound i studied by the magnetic resonance imaging. The MRI data were taken from four women - bearers of Barabian and then analyzed in LEPR IP SB RAS (Laboratory of Experimental-Phonetic Researches, Institute of Philology, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences). The results showed that all realizations of i could be deduced to the phoneme /i⊧/ - front narrow tense ejective vowel. Ejectiveness of vowels is not typical of the Southern-Siberian Turkic languages but occurs in Ket. By the height and backness (row) the Barabian phoneme /i⊧/ is close to the Sagay dialect of Khakas. The vowel shift, which is known to have taken place in Volga-Tatar and Bashkir, is also fixed in Khakas and Kumandy, and is supposed to occur in Baraba-Tatar. In the Siberian Turkic languages it affects only front vocalism. Pharyngealization can be both a constitutive characteristic of a vocal system (e. g. in Tuvan, Tofa, Tuba) and additional one (in Baraba-Tatar). It is stated to add some specific acoustic effect of sound tenseness to pronunciation. Vowel nasalization discovered in Barabian occurs in the Siberian Turkic languages sporadically and can be both motivated (as a result of progressive or regressive co-articulation with the nasal consonants) and non-motivated. Some additional articulatory characteristics of the phoneme /i⊧/ prove it to be tense and witness the whole vocal system of BarabaTatar to be a unique cluster of both constitutive and differential features.

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