1994
DOI: 10.1017/s0025100300005089
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A psychoacoustical explanation for the number of major IPA vowels

Abstract: Christoph Friedrich Hellwag was probably the first scholar who tried to show the auditory relationships and the relative distances of the vowels (Hellwag [1791] 1991). He described the vowels in a space in which the vowels formed a triangle (He didn't actually use the word ‘triangle,’ but spoke instead about a ‘scale,’ ‘ladder,’ ‘stairs,’ or ‘symmetric scheme’ (Monin 1991: 22)). The cardinal vowel system, created by Daniel Jones, has been a valuable frame work for vowel quality description, but it is partly ar… Show more

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“…The formant charts simulate the psychoacoustical vowel space with Bark scales and with an F1 scale enlarged 60% in comparison to F2 scale (cf. the argumentation in Iivonen 1994). In a psychoacoustical space all vowel pairs with equal distance represent (approximately) equal auditory distances.…”
Section: Speech Materials Selection Recordings and Analysesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The formant charts simulate the psychoacoustical vowel space with Bark scales and with an F1 scale enlarged 60% in comparison to F2 scale (cf. the argumentation in Iivonen 1994). In a psychoacoustical space all vowel pairs with equal distance represent (approximately) equal auditory distances.…”
Section: Speech Materials Selection Recordings and Analysesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…esim. Iivonen, 1994) formanttikentän keskipisteestä eli koko aineiston keskiarvosta toimi karkeana perifeerisyyden mittarina. Kuvassa 5 esitetään tulokset ärsykkeittäin lukuja spon-sarjoissa.…”
Section: Pohdintaunclassified
“…Para determinar el timbre de las vocales, se midieron los valores en hertz de los primeros dos formantes (F1 y F2) de cada token mediante un script de Praat, y luego se calculó el valor promedio de las mediciones correspondientes al lapso analizado. Con el fin de disponer de un punto de referencia invariable para la comparación de las vocales de las distintas variedades lingüísticas, todas las cartas formánticas que se presentan incluyen un conjunto de vocales de referencia basadas en la propuesta de Lindblom (1986), con muchas de las modificaciones sugeridas por Iivonen (1994).…”
Section: Metodologíaunclassified