Jurgita Jaroslavienė, Juris Grigorjevs, Jolita Urbanavičienė, Inese Indričāne. Sounds of the Baltic languages in the early 21st century: an experimental study of vowels and coarticulation
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Jurgita Jaroslavienė, Juris Grigorjevs, Jolita Urbanavičienė, Inese Indričāne. Sounds of the Baltic languages in the early 21st century: an experimental study of vowels and coarticulation
Monograph with audio illustrations. Vilnius: Institute of the Lithuanian Language, 2019. ISBN 978-609-411-251-5, https://doi.org/10.35321/e-pub.1.baltu-garsynas
The collective monograph titled Sounds of the Baltic languages in the early 21st century: an experimental study of vowels and coarticulation with audio illustrations is the first instalment in Sounds of the Baltic languages in the early 21st century, a series of books published by the Institute of the Lithuanian Language featuring a comparison of the qualitative and quantitative attributes of the vowels of the standard Lithuanian and standard Latvian language and a description of research into the interaction between the vowels and the consonants, following a consistent set of principles and highlighting the differences and similarities between the subject languages that are relevant from the point of view of typological studies of languages. Book II of the series is called Sounds of the Baltic languages in the early 21st century: an experimental study of consonants; both books constitute a capital study of the spectral characteristics of the system of sounds of the modern standard Baltic languages conducted by a team of Lithuanian and Latvian researchers in 2013–2015. Later, the study was enhanced and made deeper by the editors of the monographs. It is the first consistent comparative synchronous study of Lithuanian and Latvian vowels and consonants that used the same methods and tools for conducting research and recording sounds, the same audio analysis software, and so on. The outcome of the instrumental research suggests that Lithuanian and Latvian sounds consist of universal characters as designed by the International Phonetic Association and reveals the specifics of the national and international classification of sounds of the two languages. The books anchor the acoustic terminology of the Lithuanian language, the new methodology of instrumental sound research applied in Lithuanian linguistics, which will introduce the traditional school of Lithuanian phonetics and phonology in the global context of comparable research. The collective monographs from the series of Sounds of the Baltic languages in the early 21st century offer a foundation for continued instrumental research of the system of sounds of the modern Baltic languages from other relevant angles and perspectives. The authors chose the electronic method of publication as highly instrumental for the purposes of successfully integrating Lithuanian and Baltic research and the dissemination thereof both in Lithuania and in Latvia, and abroad. This offers the unique possibility of presenting ample audio material as well.
