Tarascan dialectal and generational differences around aspirated stops
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2010/03/0017/000137Abstract
The Tarascan or Purépecha language contrasts aspirated stops from non-aspirated word-initially, but this contrast was hardly heard in Ihuatzio, a lake dialect (Friedrich 1971:177). We measured the length of the aspirated feature following stops, and vowels /i, a, u/'s formants F1 and F2 so as to identify differences among subjects. The results show that adult male speakers from a mountain dialect make an aspiration shorter than men from a lake dialect. The opposite pattern applies for women belonging to the same dialects. Regarding generational differences, a young man from a lake dialect does a shorter aspiration than the older men do, and a young girl’s F1 and F2 of /i, a, u/ tend to be higher than older women's.
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