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The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2007
Vowels are universal in human languages and have long been categorized in feature systems. However, the feature systems are based on introspection and include a notion of ‘‘height’’ or ‘‘closeness,’’ that is not anatomically straightforward. From x-ray and other imaging data, the important aspects seem to be palatal, velar, and pharyngeal closures ...
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Vowels are universal in human languages and have long been categorized in feature systems. However, the feature systems are based on introspection and include a notion of ‘‘height’’ or ‘‘closeness,’’ that is not anatomically straightforward. From x-ray and other imaging data, the important aspects seem to be palatal, velar, and pharyngeal closures ...
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An analysis of Norwegian vowels: What determines the topography of a vowel space?
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1995Paucity of information on the acoustic structure of Norwegian and interest in comparing similarities and differences with its well-described neighbor, Swedish, led to an investigation of Norwegian vowels. A commutation set of single-word utterances was presented to 12 native speakers (4 male, 6 female, 2 children), yielding a corpus of 505 tokens ...
Michael S. Ziolkowski +4 more
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Spectral change in the vowel formant space of Long Island vowels
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1997Hillenbrand et al. [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 97, 3099–3111 (1995)] have shown that English vowels are distinguished better by discriminant analysis when a measure of spectral change is used than when a simple formant steady-state measure is used. Many English speakers on Long Island have six front vowels instead of the five treated in most discussions of ...
Marie K. Huffman, Elyse E. Tamberino
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Journal of Phonetics, 2019
Abstract This study used speech resynthesis to manipulate vowel formant frequencies in natural speech stimuli to examine the influence of magnitude and direction of spectral deviation from native norms, as well as the proximity of adjacent categories, on foreign-accentedness ratings, comprehensibility ratings and vowel identification.
Kit Ying Chan, Michael D. Hall
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Abstract This study used speech resynthesis to manipulate vowel formant frequencies in natural speech stimuli to examine the influence of magnitude and direction of spectral deviation from native norms, as well as the proximity of adjacent categories, on foreign-accentedness ratings, comprehensibility ratings and vowel identification.
Kit Ying Chan, Michael D. Hall
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Causes and consequences of the unequal distribution of vowels in the vowel space
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2002A set of possible vocal tract shapes for vowels was generated, using a vocal tract model that operates in terms of the two tongue shape parameters determined by Harshman, Ladefoged, and Goldstein (1975) and one parameter of lip opening. Each of the tongue shape parameters was varied through 15 equal steps. Many of the combinations of the two parameters
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Toward a comprehensive vowel space for whispered speech
2010 7th International Symposium on Chinese Spoken Language Processing, 2010Whispered speech, as a means of communication, has received prior research efforts on different aspects including some rough estimations/studies on the main vowels /I,ɛ,ae,Λ,℧/. Despite these efforts, it still lacks a classic vowel space determination similar to the vowel acoustic measurements for normal speech which have played a central role in the ...
Hamid R. Sharifzadeh +2 more
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Introducing diphthongs to the vowel space
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2006The aim of the study is to provide information on a new vowel space of Polish learners of British English, specifically about acoustic properties of diphthongs. Polish does not have diphthongs, though it has vowel plus glide sequences comparable to English rising diphthongs.
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Diphthongs in the repopulated vowel space
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2005The study examined 8 British English diphthongs produced by Polish learners of English, testing the diphthongs’ quality, duration, nasalization, and occurrence of glottal stops before the diphthongs. There were twelve conditions in which the diphthongs were tested: word-initial, word-final, before a voiced obstruent, before a voiceless obstruent ...
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Dimension and Structure of the Vowel Space
1995Eight categories of vowel waveform segments, extracted from the TIMIT database, were processed, into 32 msec frames of which the spectrum was described by 12 frequency bands, making each frame a point in a 12 dimensional space.
Mylène Pijpers +2 more
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Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 2012
This paper presents a pilot study of the acoustic correlates of the Plains Cree vowel system. Naturalistic recordings of speakers of mid-20th-century Plains Cree, including one monolingual speaker, provide an empirical test for the general expectations from phonological descriptions. The results demonstrate that, while the hypothesized short/long vowel
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This paper presents a pilot study of the acoustic correlates of the Plains Cree vowel system. Naturalistic recordings of speakers of mid-20th-century Plains Cree, including one monolingual speaker, provide an empirical test for the general expectations from phonological descriptions. The results demonstrate that, while the hypothesized short/long vowel
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