Title :
Existence of voiceless velar nasal in Urdu
Author :
Khan, Amad ; Zada, Nawab ; Iqbal, Mohammad Arif ; Arif Iqbal, M.
Author_Institution :
National Univ. of Comput. & Emerging Sci., Lahore, Pakistan
Abstract :
This paper looks into the existence of the voiceless velar nasal phoneme in Urdu, known as voiceless ingma. It discusses the behavior of the nasalised sound that occurs when /n/ precedes a velar stop. The discussion is based on the acoustic and phonological analysis of the data collected for the paper.
Keywords :
natural languages; speech processing; Urdu; acoustic analysis; nasalised sound behavior; phonological analysis; voiceless ingma; voiceless velar nasal phoneme; Acoustics; Dictionaries; Frequency; Production; Resonance; Spectrogram;
Conference_Titel :
Multitopic Conference, 2004. Proceedings of INMIC 2004. 8th International
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8680-9
DOI :
10.1109/INMIC.2004.1492952
