Elliott Metroplex Conference E Poster Presentation 1080P

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Chicahuaxtla Triqui [TRS] is an Otomanguean language spoken in San Andrés Chicahuaxtla. Itunyoso and Copala Triqui are two other languages in the Triqui subfamily. TRS has five tones and complex tone contours. Tones frequently work in conjunction with final glottals /ʔ h/ (e.g., 1h, 21h, 1ʔ). Unlike the other Triqui languages, TRS has glottally interrupted vowels in final syllables in which a single vocalic gesture is interrupted by a laryngeal, either /ʔ/ or /h/. Although fused enclitics in TRS usually surface word-finally, they can appear in mid-syllable positions, e.g., where V is a vowel and T is tone, exponents can be syllable-final: [VʔVT]/[VʔT] or mid-syllable [VʔTV]/[VhTV], i.e, glottally-interrupted vowels. [Vʔ/hTV] is a “split” or glottally-interrupted syllable, while [VʔVT] is a two-syllable construction. On the surface level and orthographically, glottally interrupted vowels appear to be identical to true vowel-laryngeal-vowel sequences, however, they are morphophonologically and acoustically different. Using recordings from 9 Triqui-Spanish bilinguals, we targeted [Vʔ/hTV] and [VʔVT] structures in contrastive minimal pairs in insolation and in the frame [ut̪aː3 maː3 xxx ju3h nã3h] = ‘There are many xxx here’. [Vʔ/hTV] and [VʔVT] structures were compared using measures of jitter, shimmer, voicing, intensity & duration. Analyses suggest that glottal stops in mid-syllable interrupts are pronounced differently in comparison to those found in true [VʔVT] lexical items when pronounced in insolation and within a frame. While glottal stops in [VʔVT] have greater glottal closer, [Vʔ/hTV] are best classified as a single vowel interrupted by a glottal gesture with greater degrees of jitter, shimmer, voicing and average minimum intensity