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transition from <strong>the</strong> secondary articulation to <strong>the</strong> nuclear vowel. This latter case is what<br />

we find in Mono. Figure 8.43 shows an F0 trace <strong>and</strong> a spectrogram <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> expression<br />

( ( ( C=(= C=(= C=(= C= C= C=<br />

( C=(= C= ‘It’s difficult to stir.’ We see that <strong>the</strong> formants F1 <strong>and</strong> F2 have reached <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

maximum movement towards <strong>the</strong> target vowel = by point A (at <strong>the</strong> time mark <strong>of</strong> 29.18<br />

seconds). At this point in time, F0 has only dropped slightly from its starting value <strong>of</strong><br />

about 170 Hz. The major part <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> transition from <strong>the</strong> High tone to <strong>the</strong> Low tone takes<br />

place after this point. The contour tone occurs almost exclusively on <strong>the</strong> vowel = ra<strong>the</strong>r<br />

than on <strong>the</strong> preceding secondary articulation.<br />

Figure 8.43: Waveform, F0 trace, <strong>and</strong> spectrogram <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> phrase ( ( ( ( C=(= C=(= C=(= C=(= C= C= C= C= ‘It’s difficult<br />

to stir’ (Speaker K).<br />

Figure 8.44 gives an example for labialization as well. Here we see an F0 trace<br />

<strong>and</strong> spectrogram for <strong>the</strong> underlined portion <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> phrase A@A A@A A@A A@A I( I( I( I( ( (M=(=M=<br />

( ( M=(=M= M=(=M= M=(=M= C(C( C(C( C(C( C(C(<br />

=(I( =(I( =(I( =(I( ‘They will be returning now.’ Here, <strong>the</strong> influence <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> labialization has<br />

disappeared by point A (at <strong>the</strong> time mark <strong>of</strong> 0.825 sec). At this point on <strong>the</strong> pitch trace,<br />

170

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