ISCA Archive Interspeech 2008
ISCA Archive Interspeech 2008

Connected speech processes in Warlpiri

John Ingram, Mary Laughren, Jeff Chapman

Connected speech processes (CSP) in Warlpiri, an indigenous language of central Australia, taken from two fluent 'dreaming' monologues are analyzed with the aim of observing the influence of language particular phonological constraints and prosody upon phonetic processes of lenition, co-articulation and selective segmental enhancement.