Matthew Faytak
Biographic Data
| ID | 5890596 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Faytak |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Faytak |
| SIGNATURE | FAYTAK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8188-4642 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Onset-tone interaction in Mundabli
This paper presents an acoustic study of Mundabli tones from original fieldwork data, specifically focusing on interactions of onset consonant type (voiceless obstruents, voiced obstruents, and sonorants) and f0 level and trajectory of tones. Our results reveal that voiceless obstruents condition an abrupt rise in f0 at vowel onset, while voiced obstruents and sonorants maintain similar, relatively steady f0 levels, providing evidence for an acco…
Voiced aspirates with mixed voicing in Yemba, a Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon
Using electroglottography and acoustic measures, we characterize the strength and quality of voicing in voiced aspirated and unaspirated consonants (stops, fricatives, and approximants) in Yemba (Grassfields Bantu, Cameroon). We show that the Yemba voiced aspirates exhibit mixed voicing : modal voicing during the consonant constriction, but voiceless aspiration after release. Breathy or whispery phonation extends slightly into consonant constrict…
Place uniformity and drift in the Suzhounese fricative and apical vowels
Suzhounese exhibits an unusual place anteriority contrast between rounded and unrounded dorso-palatal high front vowels, postalveolar fricative vowels, and apico-alveolar apical vowels. This arrangement is vulnerable to loss under intensifying contact with Standard Mandarin. Using acoustic and tongue ultrasound data, we investigated the phonetic implementation of place in the Suzhounese fricative and apical vowels and the similarity of place targ…
Areal patterns in the vowel systems of the Macro-Sudan Belt
This paper investigates the areal distribution of vowel systems in the Macro-Sudan Belt, an area encompassing most of the western and central parts of northern Sub-Saharan Africa. We report on a survey of 681 language varieties with entries coded for two phonological features: advanced tongue root (ATR) harmony and the presence of interior vowels (i.e. non-peripheral vowels [ɨ ɯ ɜ ə ʌ ... ]). Our results show that the presence of ATR harmony in t…
Kejom (Babanki)
Kejom [k̀ɘd͡ʒɔ́m], the preferred autonym for the language more commonly known as Babanki, is a Central Ring Grassfields Bantu language (ISO 693-3: [bbk]) spoken in the Northwest Region of Cameroon (Hyman 1980, Hammarström et al. 2017, Simons & Fennig 2017). The language is spoken mainly in two settlements shown in Figure 1, Kejom Ketinguh [k̀ɘd͡ʒɔ́m ↓kɘ́tÍnɡ̀uʔ] and Kejom Keku [k̀ɘd͡ʒɔ́m ↓kɘ́k̀u], also known as Babanki Tungoh and Big Babanki, res…
Dissimilation by surface correspondence in Aghem velarized diphthongs
Aghem exhibits a static co-occurrence restriction involving an intrusive velar segment present in two of the language's falling diphthongs. I provide a brief descriptive overview of these unusual phonetic structures and an Agreement by Correspondence (ABC) analysis of the phenomenon as dissimilation with the intent of avoiding suboptimal correspondence
Compiling sonority scales with obstruent vowels
It has been argued that languages systematically license syllabicity to all segment classes more sonorous than the least sonorous syllabic segment in that language (Blevins 1995).1 The syllabic segments found in American English exemplify this arrangement, which results in a contiguous zone of segment classes that can be licensed syllabicity (the permitted nuclei). Since sonority scales have been argued to be ranked with input from acoustic param…
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Compiling sonority scales with obstruent vowels
It has been argued that languages systematically license syllabicity to all segment classes more sonorous than the least sonorous syllabic segment in that language (Blevins 1995).1 The syllabic segments found in American English exemplify this arrangement, which results in a contiguous zone of segment classes that can be licensed syllabicity (the permitted nuclei). Since sonority scales have been argued to be ranked with input from acoustic param…
Dissimilation by surface correspondence in Aghem velarized diphthongs
Aghem exhibits a static co-occurrence restriction involving an intrusive velar segment present in two of the language's falling diphthongs. I provide a brief descriptive overview of these unusual phonetic structures and an Agreement by Correspondence (ABC) analysis of the phenomenon as dissimilation with the intent of avoiding suboptimal correspondence
Areal patterns in the vowel systems of the Macro-Sudan Belt
This paper investigates the areal distribution of vowel systems in the Macro-Sudan Belt, an area encompassing most of the western and central parts of northern Sub-Saharan Africa. We report on a survey of 681 language varieties with entries coded for two phonological features: advanced tongue root (ATR) harmony and the presence of interior vowels (i.e. non-peripheral vowels [ɨ ɯ ɜ ə ʌ ... ]). Our results show that the presence of ATR harmony in t…
Kejom (Babanki)
Kejom [k̀ɘd͡ʒɔ́m], the preferred autonym for the language more commonly known as Babanki, is a Central Ring Grassfields Bantu language (ISO 693-3: [bbk]) spoken in the Northwest Region of Cameroon (Hyman 1980, Hammarström et al. 2017, Simons & Fennig 2017). The language is spoken mainly in two settlements shown in Figure 1, Kejom Ketinguh [k̀ɘd͡ʒɔ́m ↓kɘ́tÍnɡ̀uʔ] and Kejom Keku [k̀ɘd͡ʒɔ́m ↓kɘ́k̀u], also known as Babanki Tungoh and Big Babanki, res…
Place uniformity and drift in the Suzhounese fricative and apical vowels
Suzhounese exhibits an unusual place anteriority contrast between rounded and unrounded dorso-palatal high front vowels, postalveolar fricative vowels, and apico-alveolar apical vowels. This arrangement is vulnerable to loss under intensifying contact with Standard Mandarin. Using acoustic and tongue ultrasound data, we investigated the phonetic implementation of place in the Suzhounese fricative and apical vowels and the similarity of place targ…
Voiced aspirates with mixed voicing in Yemba, a Grassfields Bantu language of Cameroon
Using electroglottography and acoustic measures, we characterize the strength and quality of voicing in voiced aspirated and unaspirated consonants (stops, fricatives, and approximants) in Yemba (Grassfields Bantu, Cameroon). We show that the Yemba voiced aspirates exhibit mixed voicing : modal voicing during the consonant constriction, but voiceless aspiration after release. Breathy or whispery phonation extends slightly into consonant constrict…
Onset-tone interaction in Mundabli
This paper presents an acoustic study of Mundabli tones from original fieldwork data, specifically focusing on interactions of onset consonant type (voiceless obstruents, voiced obstruents, and sonorants) and f0 level and trajectory of tones. Our results reveal that voiceless obstruents condition an abrupt rise in f0 at vowel onset, while voiced obstruents and sonorants maintain similar, relatively steady f0 levels, providing evidence for an acco…
Linguistic Variation and Morphology (6 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Vowel (5 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Speech recognition (3 works) · Acoustics (2 works)