Prienų šnektos nosinių sonantų spektrinė charakteristika
The spectral characteristics of the nasals in the subdialect of Prienai

Summary/Abstract: The main distinctive acoustic features of the nasals in the Eastern Kaunas Prienai subdialect have been investigated in the experimental study described in the present article. The obtained data suggest that the nasals are distinguished from the other sounds of the subdialect of Prienai on the basis of their format structure (they are like vowels in that they can be characterizes largely in terms of their format frequencies, but they differ in that the formants are not as loud as they are in vowels; besides, the nasals are made by blocking the sound from coming out of the mouth while allowing it to come out through the nose, and this affects the relative amplitude of the formats) and transitions between it and the context vowel. Since one of the main distinction between nasals during the nasal murmur is provided by the oral anti-resonance, the nasal sonorants [m], [m], [n], [n] as well as nasal-velar allophones are characterized by the frequency values of the oral zero.

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