Christina M Esposito
Biographic Data
| ID | 637100 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christina M Esposito |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christina M |
| FAMILY NAME | Esposito |
| SIGNATURE | ESPOSITO C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macalester College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9357-1560 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 88 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Teaching and Learning Guide for: The Cross‐Linguistic Patterns of Phonation Types
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Phonetics of White Hmong vowel and tonal contrasts
Hmong languages, particularly White Hmong, are well studied for their complex tone systems that incorporate pitch, phonation, and duration differences. Still, prior work has made use mostly of tones elicited in their citation forms in carrier phrases. In this paper, we provide a detailed description of both the vowel and tone systems of White Hmong from recordings of read speech. We confirm several features of the language, including the presence…
A cross-language acoustic space for vocalic phonation distinctions: Supplementary material
A cross-language acoustic space for vocalic phonation distinctions
Many languages use phonation types for phonemic or allophonic distinctions. This study examines the acoustic structure of the phonetic space for vowel phonations across languages. Our sample of eleven languages includes languages with contrastive modal, breathy, creaky, lax, tense, harsh, and/or pharyngealized phonations, and languages with allophonic nonmodal phonation on particular tones. In compiling and analyzing this sample we address relate…
Examining the relationship between vowel quality and voice quality
The majority of studies on phonation types have focused on low vowels due to the minimal effects of their first formant on harmonic amplitude. In studies of multiple vowel qualities, reports on the relationship between vowel and voice quality are mixed: some show similar formant frequencies across phonation types (e.g. Abramson, Nye & Luangthongkum 2007, Khan 2012), while others show different formant frequencies depending on voice quality (e.g. …
The cross-linguistic patterns of phonation types
We provide an update on the state of research on phonation (the production of sound by the vocal folds) since Gordon and Ladefoged's, Journal of Phonetics, 2001 29, 383-406 overview, focusing on the acoustics of breathiness, creak, and other linguistic voice qualities. We highlight cross-linguistic variation, introduce measuring techniques, and discuss the relationship between phonation and other phonological dimensions (e.g., tone, vowel quality…
Relative importance of phonation cues in White Hmong tone perception
The study investigates the importance of phonation cues in White Hmong tone identification
An acoustic and electroglottographic study of White Hmong tone and phonation
Contrastive breathiness across consonants and vowels: A comparative study of Gujarati and White Hmong
Gujarati and White Hmong are among a small handful of languages known to maintain a phonemic contrast between breathy and modal voice across both obstruents and vowels. Given that breathiness on stop consonants is realized as a breathy-voiced aspirated release into the following vowel, how is consonant breathiness distinguished from vocalic breathiness, if at all? We examine acoustic and electroglottographic data of potentially ambiguous CV seque…
The Perception of Pathologically-disordered Phonation by Gujarati, English, and Spanish Listeners
This study investigates the influence of linguistic experience on the perception of pathologically-disordered voices using 18 listeners of American English, which has allophonic breathiness, 12 listeners of Gujarati, which contrasts breathy and modal vowels, and 18 listeners of Spanish, which has neither allophonic nor phonemic breathiness. Listeners rated the similarity of pairs of pathologically-disordered voices. Multidimensional scaling was u…
Variation in contrastive phonation in Santa Ana Del Valle Zapotec
The present study sets out to investigate variation due to gender, F0, and/or prosodic position in Santa Ana del Valle Zapotec (Oto-Manguean), a language with phonemically breathy, modal and creaky vowels, each associated with a tone. Male and female speakers produced words in five prosodic positions: isolation (with focus, F0 higher than sentence-medial position), initial (focused, high F0), isolation (without focus, mid-range F0), medial (mid-r…
The effects of linguistic experience on the perception of phonation
Variation in contrastive phonation in Santa Ana Del Valle Zapotec
The present study sets out to investigate variation due to gender, F0, and/or prosodic position in Santa Ana del Valle Zapotec (Oto-Manguean), a language with phonemically breathy, modal and creaky vowels, each associated with a tone. Male and female speakers produced words in five prosodic positions: isolation (with focus, F0 higher than sentence-medial position), initial (focused, high F0), isolation (without focus, mid-range F0), medial (mid-r…
An acoustic and electroglottographic study of White Hmong tone and phonation
The effects of linguistic experience on the perception of phonation
The cross-linguistic patterns of phonation types
We provide an update on the state of research on phonation (the production of sound by the vocal folds) since Gordon and Ladefoged's, Journal of Phonetics, 2001 29, 383-406 overview, focusing on the acoustics of breathiness, creak, and other linguistic voice qualities. We highlight cross-linguistic variation, introduce measuring techniques, and discuss the relationship between phonation and other phonological dimensions (e.g., tone, vowel quality…
Contrastive breathiness across consonants and vowels: A comparative study of Gujarati and White Hmong
Gujarati and White Hmong are among a small handful of languages known to maintain a phonemic contrast between breathy and modal voice across both obstruents and vowels. Given that breathiness on stop consonants is realized as a breathy-voiced aspirated release into the following vowel, how is consonant breathiness distinguished from vocalic breathiness, if at all? We examine acoustic and electroglottographic data of potentially ambiguous CV seque…
A cross-language acoustic space for vocalic phonation distinctions
Many languages use phonation types for phonemic or allophonic distinctions. This study examines the acoustic structure of the phonetic space for vowel phonations across languages. Our sample of eleven languages includes languages with contrastive modal, breathy, creaky, lax, tense, harsh, and/or pharyngealized phonations, and languages with allophonic nonmodal phonation on particular tones. In compiling and analyzing this sample we address relate…
Variation in contrastive phonation in Santa Ana Del Valle Zapotec
The present study sets out to investigate variation due to gender, F0, and/or prosodic position in Santa Ana del Valle Zapotec (Oto-Manguean), a language with phonemically breathy, modal and creaky vowels, each associated with a tone. Male and female speakers produced words in five prosodic positions: isolation (with focus, F0 higher than sentence-medial position), initial (focused, high F0), isolation (without focus, mid-range F0), medial (mid-r…
The effects of linguistic experience on the perception of phonation
The Perception of Pathologically-disordered Phonation by Gujarati, English, and Spanish Listeners
This study investigates the influence of linguistic experience on the perception of pathologically-disordered voices using 18 listeners of American English, which has allophonic breathiness, 12 listeners of Gujarati, which contrasts breathy and modal vowels, and 18 listeners of Spanish, which has neither allophonic nor phonemic breathiness. Listeners rated the similarity of pairs of pathologically-disordered voices. Multidimensional scaling was u…
Relative importance of phonation cues in White Hmong tone perception
The study investigates the importance of phonation cues in White Hmong tone identification
An acoustic and electroglottographic study of White Hmong tone and phonation
Contrastive breathiness across consonants and vowels: A comparative study of Gujarati and White Hmong
Gujarati and White Hmong are among a small handful of languages known to maintain a phonemic contrast between breathy and modal voice across both obstruents and vowels. Given that breathiness on stop consonants is realized as a breathy-voiced aspirated release into the following vowel, how is consonant breathiness distinguished from vocalic breathiness, if at all? We examine acoustic and electroglottographic data of potentially ambiguous CV seque…
The cross-linguistic patterns of phonation types
We provide an update on the state of research on phonation (the production of sound by the vocal folds) since Gordon and Ladefoged's, Journal of Phonetics, 2001 29, 383-406 overview, focusing on the acoustics of breathiness, creak, and other linguistic voice qualities. We highlight cross-linguistic variation, introduce measuring techniques, and discuss the relationship between phonation and other phonological dimensions (e.g., tone, vowel quality…
Examining the relationship between vowel quality and voice quality
The majority of studies on phonation types have focused on low vowels due to the minimal effects of their first formant on harmonic amplitude. In studies of multiple vowel qualities, reports on the relationship between vowel and voice quality are mixed: some show similar formant frequencies across phonation types (e.g. Abramson, Nye & Luangthongkum 2007, Khan 2012), while others show different formant frequencies depending on voice quality (e.g. …
Phonetics of White Hmong vowel and tonal contrasts
Hmong languages, particularly White Hmong, are well studied for their complex tone systems that incorporate pitch, phonation, and duration differences. Still, prior work has made use mostly of tones elicited in their citation forms in carrier phrases. In this paper, we provide a detailed description of both the vowel and tone systems of White Hmong from recordings of read speech. We confirm several features of the language, including the presence…
A cross-language acoustic space for vocalic phonation distinctions: Supplementary material
A cross-language acoustic space for vocalic phonation distinctions
Many languages use phonation types for phonemic or allophonic distinctions. This study examines the acoustic structure of the phonetic space for vowel phonations across languages. Our sample of eleven languages includes languages with contrastive modal, breathy, creaky, lax, tense, harsh, and/or pharyngealized phonations, and languages with allophonic nonmodal phonation on particular tones. In compiling and analyzing this sample we address relate…
Teaching and Learning Guide for: The Cross‐Linguistic Patterns of Phonation Types
Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article
Linguistics (12 works) · Phonation (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (10 works) · Speech recognition (8 works) · Vowel (8 works) · Breathy voice (7 works) · Physics (7 works) · Speech Recognition and Synthesis (7 works)