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Acoustic Analysis of Vowels in Konkani

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Konkani is an under-resourced language mainly spoken on the west coast of India. Although linguistic analyses of vowel sounds in various dialects of Konkani have been done in the past, more accurate analysis of Konkani vowels, especially an acoustic-phonetic analysis, was never carried out. In this article, we present a detailed analysis of nine Konkani vowels, namely /i/, /e/, /ε/, /u/, /o/, /ɔ/, /a/, /ə/, and /ɨ̞/. The dataset used for the analysis was created from audio recordings of 28 native speakers of Goan Konkani. Based on the experimental results, we propose a vowel chart for Konkani. We also observed a partial loss of Konkani vowel /ɨ̞/ in the regular speech of native speakers. This change is also evident in the substitution analysis of vowel phonemes that was carried out by us as a part of this study.

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cover image ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing
ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing  Volume 21, Issue 5
September 2022
486 pages
ISSN:2375-4699
EISSN:2375-4702
DOI:10.1145/3533669
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Published: 29 April 2022
Online AM: 03 February 2022
Accepted: 01 December 2021
Revised: 01 July 2021
Received: 01 September 2020
Published in TALLIP Volume 21, Issue 5

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  1. Acoustic analysis
  2. formant analysis
  3. Konkani
  4. vowel phoneme

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