قضايا لغوية
Volume 6, Numéro 2, Pages 118-136
2025-12-15
An Acoustic Study Of Kode Particles Na And Nã In Their Speech Context
Authors : Konan Yannick .
Abstract
Baule-Kode, a variant of the Baule language belonging to the Kwa family, has two particles, which systematically occur in most of sentences. One is an additive particle na, and the other is a negative particle nã. Moreover, those particles in Baule-Kode pose the problem of sentence recognitions and interpretations Given the problem of sentence recognition and interpretation due to the use of the particles in speech sentences, we propose an acoustic study based on the prosody parameters (fundamental frequency F0, duration, vowel formants, and formants of the bandwidth) to make a clear-cut difference between these particles. The results indicate that, among the prosody parameters, the fundamental frequency F0 is the key factor for distinguishing between the particles in speech.
Keywords
duration ; , formants of the bandwidth ; fundamental frequency F0 ; particles ; vowel formants
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