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Vowel height and the perception of consonantal nasality
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1981By 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 +3 more
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Intrinsic velar height in supine vowels
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1990Intrinsic 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, 1988Certain 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 +3 more
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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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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, 2003This 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 +4 more
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Modeling perceived Vowel Height, Advancement, and Rounding
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Adank, P., Smits, R., Van Hout, R.
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Vowel perturbation as a function of tongue height
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1975Ten 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, 1988Since 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, 1998Perceived 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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Final consonant voicing and vowel height contrasts in whispered speech.
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2008Whispered 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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