Ukrainian rhotic consonants in comparison to Russian: An acoustic study

• Dmytro Hrytsu ^[1]
  1. [1] Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice (Slovak Republic)
• Localización: Estudios de fonética experimental, ISSN 1575-5533, ISSN-e 2385-3573, Nº. 31, 2022, págs. 59-66
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This short paper maintains a discussion on the nature of rhotic consonants in two different but genetically related languages (Ukrainian and Russian). The main goal of the paper is carrying out a modern acoustic study about rhotic realizations in the two target languages, as well as putting forward some considerations about a possible sound change. Acoustic analysis is carried out using LPC and FFT measurements in order to capture the difference in rhotic realizations. The results allow for a description of the acoustic properties of the Ukrainian language, and suggest the existence of an ongoing simplification process of rhotic consonants in both languages

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