An acoustic investigation of vowel variation in Gitksan

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dc.contributor.authorBorland-Walker, Kyra Ann
dc.contributor.supervisorBird, Sonya Frances
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-13T18:21:34Z
dc.date.available2019-02-13T18:21:34Z
dc.date.copyright2019en_US
dc.date.issued2019-02-13
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Linguisticsen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe research question for this thesis is: How does vowel quality vary across Gitksan speakers, and what sociolinguistic factors may be influencing this variation? Answering this question requires both that I show what the variation is, and why it may be that way; I have approached these questions by conducting a study in two parts. First, I conducted a demographic survey and ethnographically-informed qualitative interview with nine Gitksan speakers. Second, I performed an acoustic analysis of vowel variation across these same speakers. The acoustic results lead me to conclude that the low and front vowels show the most variation between speakers. My findings allowed me to add to our understanding of individual variation across speakers and communities. Although further investigation is needed to come to a conclusion about the generalizability of these results, the overarching contribution of my work is to add phonetic detail to previous descriptions of variation between speakers within the Interior Tsimshianic dialect continuum.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/10609
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectGitksanen_US
dc.subjectPhoneticsen_US
dc.subjectSociolinguisticsen_US
dc.subjectEthnographyen_US
dc.subjectAcousticsen_US
dc.subjectLinguisticsen_US
dc.subjectTsimshianen_US
dc.titleAn acoustic investigation of vowel variation in Gitksanen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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