The third formant of vowels is generally known to have multiple correlates. F3 is generally associated with lip rounding in the articulation of vowels as well as with a lowering effect on other formants. The present study addresses the question whether ‘the third formant effects + back and + open feature of the vowels?’ with data from two languages Hindi and Thai. A contrastive study of seven long peripheral vowels of Thai a tonal language and seven long peripheral vowels of Hindi, a non-tonal language is presented in this paper. We arrive at some interesting results which need to be further examined with data from more speakers and more languages.
['Ritu Yadav', 'Deepshikha Misra', 'Sulaganya Punyayodhin', 'Vaishna Narang']
A Contrastive Study of F3 Correlation with F2 and F1 in Thai and Hindi