{"id":3856,"date":"2011-10-13T15:16:47","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T14:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=3856"},"modified":"2011-10-13T15:16:47","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T14:16:47","slug":"locus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=3856","title":{"rendered":":Locus:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pronunciation <strong>GB<\/strong>: <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>\u02c8l\u0259\u028ak\u0259s<\/strong><\/span>, <strong>GA<\/strong>: <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>\u02c8lo\u028ak\u0259s<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The shape and extent of a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=2465\">formant transition<\/a> is dependent on the frequency of the formant and the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1524\">place<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=781\">manne<\/a>r of articulation of the consonant concerned.  So, for example, in the diagram below the sequence <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>d\u025b<\/strong><\/span> displays a more or less level F2 transition, while <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>du<\/strong><\/span> has quite a sharp fall for the F2 transition.  A comparison of all the F2 transitions for sequences beginning with <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>d<\/strong><\/span> suggests that a frequency of around 1800Hz is the origin of all the transitions for this consonant.  This is the F2 locus for <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=237\">alveolar<\/a> consonants.  The F2 locus for <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=995\">bilabials<\/a> is low in frequency (&lt;600Hz).  As can be seen, all the F2 transitions for the top panel in the diagram are rising.  For <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=529\">velars<\/a> the F2 locus frequency is high (&gt;3000Hz).  All the F2 transitions in the bottom panel are falling.<\/p>\n<p><center><img src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/locus-2.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Stylised spectrograms showing F1 and F2 transitions<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pronunciation GB: \u02c8l\u0259\u028ak\u0259s, GA: \u02c8lo\u028ak\u0259s The shape and extent of a formant transition is dependent on the frequency of the formant and the place\/manner of articulation of the consonant concerned. So, for example, in the diagram below the sequence d\u025b &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=3856\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":199,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3856"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3856"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3875,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3856\/revisions\/3875"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}