Formant characteristics of stressed vowels in Western Mari language
Zorina Zoya G.,
Doctor of Philology, Professor, Department of Intercultural Communication, Mari State University (Yoshkar-Ola, Russia), zorinazoia@mail.ru
The article presents the spectral characteristics of vowels in the Western Mari language. According to the results of the acoustic analysis it gives a brief description of articulatory features of Gornomariysky and Lugomariyskih vowels
Keywords: Gornomariysky language; Lugomariysky language; vowels; spectral analysis.
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