Linguistic Portfolios Volume 6 Article 5 2017 The Acoustic Correlates of the Voiceless Palatal Fricative [ʃ] in Central Minnesota English Ettien Koffi St. Cloud State University,
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[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/stcloud_ling Part of the Applied Linguistics Commons Recommended Citation Koffi, Ettien and Bloch, Maria (2017) "The Acoustic Correlates of the Voiceless Palatal Fricative [ʃ] in Central Minnesota English," Linguistic Portfolios: Vol. 6 , Article 5. Available at: https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/stcloud_ling/vol6/iss1/5 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by theRepository at St. Cloud State. It has been accepted for inclusion in Linguistic Portfolios by an authorized editor of theRepository at St. Cloud State. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Koffi and Bloch: The Acoustic Correlates of the Voiceless Palatal Fricative [?] in Linguistic Portfolios–ISSN 2472-5102 –Volume 6, 2017 | 34 THE ACOUSTIC CORRELATES OF THE VOICELESS PALATAL FRICATIVE [ʃ] IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA ENGLISH ETTIEN KOFFI AND MARIA BLOCH1 ABSTRACT Fricatives are found in all world languages (Maddieson 1984:41). Similarities in mouth geometry and in their aerodynamic characteristics have made them the favorite segments for testing claims about universals of phonetic features. Yet, there is important interspeaker variability even within the same language (Ladefoged and Maddieson 1996:139). In this paper we investigate the voiceless sibilant fricative [ʃ] produced by Central Minnesota English (CMNE) speakers to see how similar and yet different it is from those produced by speakers of other dialects of General American English (GAE).