Phonetic characteristics of double articulations in some Mangbutu-Efe languages

Didier Demolin (1) , Bernard Teston (2)

1 Laboratoire de Phonologie
2 LPL - Laboratoire Parole et Langage

This paper examines double articulations in three african languages: Mamvu, Lese and Efe, all belonging to the Central Sudanic language family. The phonetic inventory of these languagesexhibit some very interesting facts among which the most striking are voiceless labio-velars stops involving a trilled release and a labio-uvular stop which shows the combination of a voiceless and a voiced part in the same consonant. Acoustic and aerodynamic measurements describing the production of these sounds are presented.

Mots clés: speech production; phonology central sudanic language; aerodynamics; acoustics

Domaines: Linguistique

Didier Demolin, Bernard Teston. Phonetic characteristics of double articulations in some Mangbutu-Efe languages. Eurospeech (ISCA), Sep 1997, Rhodes, Greece. pp.803-806. ⟨hal-00239376⟩