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On Vowel Height and Consonantal Voicing Effects: Data from Italian

Phonetica, 2002
AbstractThis paper reports an acoustic study of CV sequences in Italian (where C is /b, d, g, p, t, k/ and V is one of the seven Italian vowels in stressed position). It explores the effects of vowel height, consonantal voicing, and place of articulation on a number of acoustic attributes of vowels (duration, f₀, F₁), and on the ...
Anna Esposito
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Development of tones from vowel height?

Journal of Phonetics, 1977
Abstract: The development of contrastive tones on vowels due to the loss of a voicing distinction on obstruents in prevocalic position is widely attested and rather well understood. On the other hand intrinsic fundamental frequency variations caused by vowel height rarely, if at all, give rise to the development of phonological tones.
exaly   +2 more sources

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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Effect of Voice Quality on Perceived Height of English Vowels

Phonetica, 1997
Abstract Across a variety of languages, phonation type and vocal-tract shape systematically covary in vowel production. Breathy phonation tends to accompany vowels produced with a raised tongue body and/or advanced tongue root. A potential explanation for this regularity, based on a hypothesized interaction between the acoustic effects ...
A J, Lotto, L L, Holt, K R, Kluender
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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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Integrating Articulations in the Perception of Vowel Height

Phonetica, 1991
Abstract In vowels contrasting for height, a large number of articulations covary with tongue height, which is supposed to be the principal bearer of the contrast. However, attempts to link these covarying articulations to tongue movement physiologically have been largely unsuccessful, and the particular pattern of covariation appears to
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Underspecification and vowel height transfer in Esimbi

Phonology, 1988
Since the advent of distinctive feature theory, few issues have received as many interpretations as the phonological representation of vowel height. Vowel height features have been denned acoustically and articulatorily, have allowed three, four or five distinct heights, have been unary, binary and n-ary, and have been on a single tier, multiple tiers ...
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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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Effects of stress, vowel duration, and vowel height on the timing of pitch peaks in Czech

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1995
Czech is described as having word stress fixed on the first syllable, independent of vowel quantity. The pitch peak of a word generally falls on that first, stressed syllable. However, in some environments, the pitch peak shifts to a later syllable, leading to the perception that this later syllable is more prominent.
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Control of larynx height in vowel production

5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 1998), 1998
Philip Hoole, Christian Kroos
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