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Vowel perturbation as a function of tongue height

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1975
Ten normal adult male speakers were asked to sustain the vowels ‖i‖, ‖u‖, ‖λ‖, ‖ae‖, and ‖a‖. A perturbation factor was then calculated for each vowel. The results indicated that no relation existed between vocal fold aperiodicity and tongue height associated with vowel production. Subject Classification: 70.20, 70.40.
Patricia L. Kasprzyk, Harvey R. Gilbert
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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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Effect of spectral distance on vowel height perception

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1998
Perceived vowel height has been reported to vary inversely with the distance (in Bark) between the first formant frequency (F1) and the fundamental frequency (F0) [H. Traunmueller, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 69, 1465–1475 (1981)]. However, in a study using back vowels, Fahey et al. [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 99, 2350–2357 (1996)] found that phonetic quality was not
Patrick C. M. Wong, Randy L. Diehl
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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 ...
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Final consonant voicing and vowel height contrasts in whispered speech.

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2008
Whispered speech is a naturally distorted speech signal. Whereas it preserves some characteristics of fully phonated speech, some important acoustic cues are removed, diminished, or altered. The prominence of acoustic cues in whispered speech may change due to the physical properties of the whispered speech signal, i.e., decreased intensity, the ...
Yana D Gilichinskaya, Winifred Strange
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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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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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Vowel height harmony and blocking in Buchan Scots

Phonology, 2004
The Buchan Scots dialect of north-east Scotland exhibits a unique phonological phenomenon: vowel harmony is blocked by intervening consonants that have no secondary articulation or other obvious characteristic that should make them opaque to harmony.
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Vowel Height Allophony and Dorsal Place Contrasts in Cochabamba Quechua

Phonetica, 2016
AbstractThis paper reports on the results of two studies investigating the role of allophony in cueing phonemic contrasts. In Cochabamba Quechua, the uvularvelar place distinction is often cued by additional differences in the height of the surrounding vowels.
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Articulator Features and Portuguese Vowel Height

Language, 1982
Arnold M. Zwicky, Wayne J. Redenbarger
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