This book entitled Laryngeal Contrasts in Madurese Stops presents and discusses laryngeal contrasts in Madurese stop consonants. It thoroughly examines several acoustic measures that are commonly used to distinguish them in the world’s languages and in Madurese as a focal case in point. For this purpose, the book is divided into four major parts.
The first part introduces the rationale of the book and sets the stage for the topics. The second part addresses and discusses theoretical backgrounds for understanding voicing and laryngeal contrasts. This part describes and discusses how laryngeal contrasts are commonly manifested through acoustic properties in the world’s languages. The third part presents and discusses acoustic correlates of laryngeal contrasts in Madurese stops. We specifically look at acoustic properties such as voice onset time (VOT), stop closure duration, fundamental frequency ( F0), and voice quality measures, i.e. H1*-A1*, H1*-A2*, H1*-A3*, H1*-H2*, H2*-H4*, and ceptral peak prominence (CPP). The last part wraps up the whole discussion of the book.
We hope the book provides meaningful and benificial resources for our understanding about pecific acoustic aspects of the laryngeal contrast in Madurese. We also hope it gives insightful knowledge about general aspects of Madurese phonetics and phonology that may inspire and stimulate further interest in that specific field.