Presentations Greenberg, S. In Search of the Essence of Language - Its About Time. Keck Center for Integrative Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco, April 11, 1996. Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, Stanford University, April 18, 1996. This past year, Carrie has been working on her senior honors thesis with Prof. Ohala. The less robust features may not be used at all but if they are, the language had already used features from the robust set.
English vowels lends support to the hypothesis.
This summer, further research will be conducted in this area using French and possibly Norwegian vowels. Dr. Mathangwane will return to Botswana and a university teaching position in July. He will be at the Phonology Laboratory until September, 1996. So far, the analysis shows that the main acoustic effect of nasalization in BP vowels is an increase of the first formant bandwidth, followed by the reduction of the first formant amplitude. It appears that phonemic and allophonic nasalization show similar velum behavior.