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Cues for Consonant Voicing: Its Assimilation in Word Juncture

Summary/Abstract: The paper consists of two parts. The first one considers the general acoustic cues for voicing of obstruents (i.e. cases of the consonants in word juncture are not detailed). Acoustic peculiarities of the lenis/fortis dichotomy are mentioned. Relatively simple visual cues for voicing (acoustical expressions of a component of phonation) identifiable from oscillograms and spectrograms are discussed. Problems of the techniques of such identification are pointed out. The quantitative indexes for voicing of fricatives and stops are suggested and applied for analysis of the consonant voicing in standard Lithuanian. The second part is focused on the close assimilation of the consonants in word juncture taking place in the Southern Aukštaitians. Drawing on the above mentioned techniques examples of spontaneous oral speech are analyzed.

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