Preliminary Acoustic Analysis of Minor Syllables in Kanise Khumi

In the Kanise Khumi language [Myanmar; Kuki- Chin; Khomic branch], purported minor syllables appear to exhibit surface variations in segmental features. However, it is unexpected for minor syllables in Khomic languages to show contrastive variations. This talk presents the first acoustic analysis of Kanise Khumi's minor syllables using an articulatory framework to discover such possibility and ends with a discussion of the implication of the study towards the establishment of minor syllable and thence sesquisyllable in the language.