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Asymmetries in the Processing of Vowel Height

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2012
PurposeSpeech perception can be described as the transformation of continuous acoustic information into discrete memory representations. Therefore, research on neural representations of speech sounds is particularly important for a better understanding of this transformation.
Scharinger, M., Monahan, P.J., & Idsardi, W.J.   +5 more
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Articulation of vowel height in Taiwanese Vowels: An EMA study

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2015
Whalen et al.’s (2010) ultrasound study has suggested that constriction degree “may be the best descriptor for height” in American English front vowels {i, ɪ, e, ɛ}. The present study took a further step, investigating the case of height and backness distinction in Taiwanese front and back vowels.
Yuehchin Chang, Yi-cheng Chen, Feng-fan Hsieh   +2 more
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Vowel fundamental frequency and tongue height

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1977
This research was designed to substantiate the results of Ohala [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 60, S44(A) (1976)] which supported the “tongue-pull” hypothesis of intrinsic vowel pitch. Our goal was explanation of the observation that vowels with high tongue position have higher F0 than do vowels with low tongue position. It has been suggested that the anatomical
James Lubker, Robert McAllister, Björn Lindblom   +2 more
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Perception of height differences in vowels

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1983
Vowels contrasting in the phonetic feature of height or openness are differentiated primarily by changes in the frequency of the first formant. Several hypotheses have been proposed to account for the perception of these differences. Mushnikov and Chistovich [Sov. Phys. Acoust. 19, 250–254 (1973)] argue that the frequency of the most prominent harmonic
Peter F. Assmann, Terrance M. Nearey
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Vowel height and the perception of consonantal nasality

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1981
By means of an articulatory synthesizer, the preception of the oral–nasal distinction in consonants was explored experimentally. This distinction was chosen because it is achieved by a very simple articulatory maneuver and because it is phonologically relevant in virtually every language.
A S, Abramson, P W, Nye, J B, Henderson, C W, Marshall   +3 more
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Intrinsic velar height in supine vowels

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1990
Intrinsic velar height, the tendency of the velum to be higher during high vowels than during low vowels, is assumed to be the result of adjustments for the tongue height and pharyngeal cavity of the vowel. But does gravity's pull on the velum contribute as well?
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Coarticulatory influences on the perceived height of nasal vowels

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1988
Certain of the complex spectral effects of vowel nasalization bear a resemblance to the effects of modifying the tongue or jaw position with which the vowel is produced. Perceptual evidence suggests that listener misperceptions of nasal vowel height arise as a result of this resemblance.
R A, Krakow, P S, Beddor, L M, Goldstein, C A, Fowler   +3 more
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Upstepping vowel height

2006
The main goal of this paper is to argue for a unified analysis of two stepwise vowel raising processes known as metaphony, those of Proto-Spanish and Lena Asturian, within the framework of Optimality Theory (OT). It is shown that previous serial accounts based on autosegmental spreading rules operating on vowel height features are unable to capture ...
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Vowel Category Dependence of the Relationship Between Palate Height, Tongue Height, and Oral Area

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2003
This article evaluates intertalker variance of oral area, logarithm of the oral area, tongue height, and formant frequencies as a function of vowel category. The data consist of coronal magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) sequences and acoustic recordings of 5 talkers, each producing 11 different vowels.
Mark, Hasegawa-Johnson, Shamala, Pizza, Abeer, Alwan, Jul Setsu, Cha, Katherine, Haker   +4 more
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Modeling perceived Vowel Height, Advancement, and Rounding

2003
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Adank, P., Smits, R., Van Hout, R.
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