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Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 16: Papers from the 2017 Budapest Conference
Edited by Veronika Hegedűs and Irene Vogel
[Approaches to Hungarian 16] 2020
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Intervocalic voicing of Hungarian /h/

| Eötvös Loránd University | MTA-ELTE “Lendület” Lingual Articulation Research Group
| Eötvös Loránd University | MTA-ELTE “Lendület” Lingual Articulation Research Group
| MTA-ELTE “Lendület” Lingual Articulation Research Group | Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
| MTA-ELTE “Lendület” Lingual Articulation Research Group | Budapest University of Technology and Economics
| Eötvös Loránd University | MTA-ELTE “Lendület” Lingual Articulation Research Group

In this study, we investigated whether the amount of voicing, and the sound quality (expressed in HNR) of /h/ in syllable onset are affected by intervocalic context (vs. post-pausal context), by backness and openness of the flanking vowels, and by a phonological conditioner, pitch-accent. We showed that both measures were similarly high in all intervocalic positions (irrespective of the presence of word-boundary and pitch-accent), while after a pause they were substantially lower, meaning that /h/ was voiced, and more modally voiced intervocalically, than after a pause. Further, interaction of this effect with that of vowel features led us to conclude that open, close, back, and front vowel groups should be considered internally heterogeneous with respect to their effect on /h/ voicing.

Keywords: phonetic analysis, fricative voicing, glottal fricative, laryngeal fricative, fraction of voiced frames, HNR, voice leak, intervocalic voicing, breathy voice
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
    • 1.1Background
    • 1.2Aims
    • 1.3The acoustics of breathy voice, and acoustic parameters that quantify voice quality in fricatives
  • 2.Methods
    • 2.1Participants
    • 2.2Material
    • 2.3Measurements
      • 2.3.1Estimation of the voiced part
      • 2.3.2Acoustic measure of signal characteristics
      • 2.3.3Statistical analyses
  • 3.Results
  • 4.Discussion and conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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Published online: 8 April 2020
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https://doi.org/10.1075/atoh.16.03dem
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