The laryngeal sphincter as an articulator:
Tenseness, tongue root and phonation in Yi and Bái

The video files in this presentation accompany the phonetic descriptions published in: Esling, John H., & Edmondson, Jerold A. (2002). The laryngeal sphincter as an articulator: Tenseness, tongue root and phonation in Yi and Bai. In A. Braun & H.R. Masthoff (Eds.), Phonetics and its Applications: Festschrift for Jens-Peter Köster on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag.

 

Acknowledgments:
We are grateful to Lama Ziwo (Sichuan Province, China, and University of Texas, Arlington), to Li Shaoni (Yunnan Province, China, and Central University of Nationalities, Beijing), and to Jimmy G. Harris who came to Victoria to participate in laryngoscopic observations and to assist with articulatory phonetic classification. We also gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Speech Technology Research Ltd., Greg Newton for data processing, and Dr. Michael Mawdsley, the attending physician. This research is supported by Research Grants 410-93-0539 and 410-2000-0901 from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada to the University of Victoria.
 
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