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Acoustic analysis

Index of SIL publications on Acoustic analysis listed by country.

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General works

• Cahill, Michael. 1997. "Perception of consonant clusters and variable gap time."
• Malone, Terry. 2000. "An annotated bibliography of basic acoustic theory for the field linguist."

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Benin

• Anderson, Coleen G. 2006-2007. "F1 and center of gravity interplay in the maintenance of phonological height within a statistical model of a communal grammar: the case of Foodo [ATR] acoustics."

Chad

• Pearce, Mary Dorothy. 2007. The interaction of tone with voicing and foot structure: evidence from Kera phonetics and phonology.

Côte d’Ivoire

• Flik, Eva. 1977. "Tone glides and registers in five Dan dialects."

Democratic Republic of the Congo

• McCord, Michael S. 1989. Acoustical and autosegmental analyses of the Mayogo vowel system.

Ghana

• Cahill, Michael. 2008. "Measuring duration with speech analyzer."  

Nigeria

• Peterson, Gordon E. and Norris P. McKinney. 1961. "The measurement of speech power."

Sudan

• Duerksen, John L. 1989. "Syllable initial ‘h’ in Dinka."
• Pike, Kenneth L. 1967. "Tongue-root position in practical phonetics."

Americas

Brazil

• Kroeker, Menno H. 1976. "Condicionamento múltiplo de vogais na língua nambikuára."

Mexico

• Bickford, J. Albert. 1985. "Fortis/lenis consonants in Guichicovi Mixe: a preliminary acoustic study."
• Pike, Kenneth L. 1944. "Analysis of a Mixteco text."
• Pike, Kenneth L. 1944. Cambios en la forma y el significado debidos a la posicion de los morfemas en la frase: analisis de un texto mixteco.
• Pike, Kenneth L. 1967. "Tongue-root position in practical phonetics."

Peru

• Parker, Esteban and Deber Quintero. 2007. "Un análisis acústico del quechua del Cusco."
• Parker, Steve. 2007. "Un análisis acústico del Quechua del Cusco (An acoustic analysis of Cusco Quechua)."  
• Parker, Steve. 2008. "Sound level protrusions as physical correlates of sonority."
• Wise, Mary Ruth. 1958. "Diverse points of articulation of allophones in Amuesha (Arawak)."

United States

• Parker, Steve. 2008. "Sound level protrusions as physical correlates of sonority."
• Peck, Charles W. 1969. An acoustic investigation of the intonation of American English.

Asia

Cambodia

• Wayland, Ratree P. and Guion, Susan G. 2005. "Sound changes following the loss of /r/ in Khmer: a new tonogenetic mechanism?."  

India

• Grainger, Peter J. 1980. "A palatography experiment to show the contrast between dental and post-alveolar stops in Punjabi."

Nepal

• Hinton, Bruce C. 1970. "Spectrographic confirmation of contrastive pitch and breathiness in Gurung."
• Watters, Stephen. 2003. "An acoustic look at pitch in Lhomi."

Philippines

• Olson, Kenneth S. and Jeff Mielke. 2007. "Acoustic properties of the Kagayanen vowel space."  

Thailand

• Thomas, David D. and Wanna Tienmee. 1983. "An acoustic study of Northern Khmer vowels."

Pacific

Papua New Guinea

• Henderson, James E. 1981. "Instrumental help in phonology."
• King, Phil. 2007. "An Acoustic Description of Central Vowels in Three Austronesian Languages of New Ireland."