10 May 2019

Pronunciation of Dusun

Research continues at UBD on the pronunciation of Dusun. The following website highlights recent efforts:

http://fass.ubd.edu.bn/research/dusun/index.html

One goal of this work is to enable readers to listen to the material as they read about it. Here is the opening phrase of the 'North Wind and the Sun' passage.

As you can hear, one key feature of Dusun is the pronunciation of 'r' as [ɣ], a voiced velar fricative; so utara' ('north') is [utaɣaʔ].

My dream is that , one day, all academic papers on pronunciation will have embedded sounds, so you can always listed to the material as you read the paper.