PHONETIC VARIATION IN ANONG VOWELS

Ela Thurgood
Department of English, California State University, Chico

ID 1176
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The study presents an acoustic analysis of Anong vowels, a language on the edge of extinction, investigating how language death affects their range, distribution, and degree of variability. The three most significant processes operating on Anong vowels are then discussed: coloring, nasalization, and laryngealization.