HomoFast-eSpeak-Persian/phsource/ph_cherokee

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// TONES
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// REFERENCE MATERIALS
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// Collaborative Documentation and Revitalization of Cherokee Tone
// https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/handle/10125/24630/herrick.pdf
// Tones fall within a range of 80–140 H (pg 21, footnote)
// the mid tone (2) starts at 104 Hz (P1) and falls approximately 2 Hz at of the next four points ending at 96 Hz at P5.
//
// Building Tone Resources for Second Language Learners from Phonetic Documentation
// https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/24737/hirata-edds_herrick.pdf
//
// Pitch contours taken from Praat chart, pg 295 
//
// (¹) low fall: 106, 102, 97, 92, 88
// (²) low/mid: 104, 100, 98, 97, 96
// (³) high: 108, 109, 110, 111, 112
// (⁴) super high: 109, 113, 118, 122, 127
// (²³) rising: 97, 98, 101, 104, 109
// (³²) falling: 122, 120, 115, 106, 97

// A REFERENCE GRAMMAR OF OKLAHOMA CHEROKEE (2008)
// Short vowels preceding /h/ are devoiced, pg 45 (how to do this espeak-ng?)
// Word final vowels are nasalized
// Vowels are nasalized after a nasal consonant
// Vowels are either long or short; a long vowel takes
// approximately twice as long to pronounce as its
// short counterpart., pg 46

//int pitch1 = 0;
//int pitch2 = 0;
//int pitch_env = 0;
//int amp_env = 0;
//IF (pitch1 >= pitch2) the pitch values get swapped (???)

phoneme 1 // low fall (¹)
  stress
  ipa ˨˩
  //Tone(106, 88, envelope/p_fall, NULL)
  
	Tone(106, 85, envelope/p_fall, NULL) //need a pitch contour of 106-88 for a
endphoneme


phoneme 2 // low (²)
  stress
  ipa ˨
  //Tone(104, 96, envelope/p_fall, NULL)
  //DF voice based
  Tone(105, 93, envelope/p_fall, NULL) //need a pitch contour of 104-96 for a
endphoneme

phoneme 3 // high (³) 
  stress
  ipa ˧
  //Tone(108, 112, envelope/p_rise, NULL)
  Tone(109, 116, envelope/p_rise, NULL) //need a pitch contour of 108-112 for a
endphoneme

phoneme 4 // extra high rise (⁴)
  stress
  ipa ˧˦
  Tone(112, 134, envelope/p_rise, NULL) //need a pitch contour of 109-127 for a
endphoneme

phoneme 23 // rising (²³)
  stress
  ipa ˨˧
  Tone(96, 111, envelope/p_rise, NULL) //need a pitch contour of 97-109 for a
endphoneme

phoneme 32 // falling (³²)
  stress
  ipa ˧˨
  Tone(128, 96, envelope/p_fall, NULL) //need a pitch contour of 122-97 for a
endphoneme

phoneme 43 // extra high fall (⁴³) - end of word tone
  stress
  ipa ˦˧
  //need a pitch contour of 122-75 for a~
  //but can't seem to get espeak-ng to generate it when analysed via praat
  Tone(127, 71, envelope/p_fall, NULL)
  //length 150
endphoneme

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// LANGUAGE SPECIFIC CONSONANTS (PLOSIVES/STOPS)
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//none.

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// LANGUAGE SPECIFIC VOWELS
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//from phonemes
phoneme : //  lengthen previous vowel by "length"
  virtual
  length 175
endphoneme

// ạ, a
//from ph_en
phoneme A:
  vwl
  length 175
  FMT(vowel/aa_2)
endphoneme

// ạ, a, end of word vowel
//from ph_english
phoneme A~
  vwl
  length 175
  FMT(vnasal/aa_n2)
endphoneme

// e, ẹ
//from ph_base2
phoneme E
  vwl
  length 175
  FMT(vowel/ee_1)
endphoneme

// e, ẹ, final word vowel
//from ph_konkani
phoneme E~
  vwl
  length 175
  FMT(vnasal/ee_n2)
endphoneme

// i, ị
//from ph_en
phoneme I
  vwl
  length 175
  FMT(vowel/ii_2)
endphoneme

// i, ị, final word vowel
//from ph_konkani
phoneme I~
  vwl
  length 175
  FMT(vnasal/ii_n)
endphoneme

// o, ọ
//from ph_base2
phoneme o
  vwl
  length 175
  FMT(vowel/o)
endphoneme

// o, ọ, final word vowel
phoneme o~
  vwl
  length 175
  FMT(vnasal/o_n)
endphoneme

// u, ụ
//from ph_base2
phoneme u
  vwl
  length 175
  FMT(vowel/u_bck)
endphoneme

// u, ụ, final word vowel
phoneme u~
  vwl
  length 175
  FMT(vnasal/u_n)
endphoneme

//ṿ, v
//from ph_french
phoneme W~
  vwl
  length 175
  FMT(vnasal/W_n)
endphoneme

// fix specific consonents to last long enough to be heard 
phoneme l
	import_phoneme base2/l
	length 150
endphoneme

phoneme m
	import_phoneme base2/m
	length 400
endphoneme

phoneme n
	import_phoneme base2/n
	length 200
endphoneme

phoneme w
	import_phoneme base2/w
	length 100
endphoneme