What is and what is not under the control of the speaker: Intrinsic vowel duration

Fougeron, Cécile; Kühnert, Barbara; D’Imperio, Mariapaola; Vallée, Nathalie

doi:10.1515/9783110224917.5.607

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“…In addition, the height of the vowel is one of the universal factors affecting vowel length in all languages (Chomsky & Halle, 1968). Several studies have found that lower vowels are longer than high vowels because of the time spent opening the jaw to produce the low vowels (Lehiste, 1970;Solé & Ohala, 2010). The findings of Mitleb (1984b) support this fact, indicating that the Arabic and English languages have the same height effect on vowel duration.…”

Section: E Voicing Effectmentioning

confidence: 81%

The Effect of Coda Voicing Contrast on Vowel Duration in American English and Najdi Arabic: A Comparison Study

Alhabshan

Alsager

2022

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This paper presents a comparative study investigating the influence of consonant voicing status on the duration of preceding vowels in Najdi Arabic and American English. In this study, the phonetic correlates of the voicing feature in Najdi Arabic and American English were examined with regard to vowel duration were examined. In addition, acoustic measurements (duration, fundamental frequency, and second formant frequency levels) were taken. The vowel /a:/ is produced in monosyllabic /CVC/ forms by Najdi Saudi and American speakers. The goal of this study is to determine the effect of the voicing feature of the consonant on the preceding vowel in Najdi Arabic and American English by measuring the vowel duration. This study adopts some statistical analyses that might offer a novel perspective on speech recognition analysis.

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Section: E Voicing Effectmentioning

confidence: 81%

The Effect of Coda Voicing Contrast on Vowel Duration in American English and Najdi Arabic: A Comparison Study

Alhabshan

Alsager

2022

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“…Demands on the tongue tip will be greater for /si/, as the degrees of freedom of this articulator are subject to intra-articulator mechanical and temporal coordination constraints, whereas for /su/, this is not the case, as the vowel is pronounced with the posterior dorsum of the tongue. Nevertheless, in this latter sequence, there is also inter-articulator coordination due to vowel labialization, which is reflected anticipatorily in the fricative (Forrest et al, 1988;Hough & Klich, 1998;Kelso & Tuller, 1984;Lubker & Gay;1982;Recasens & Rodríguez, 2016;Solé & Ohala, 2010;Zharkova et al, 2012).…”

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Anticipatory coarticulation of the Spanish alveolar fricative /s/ in adults with apraxia versus dysarthria

Melle,

Lahoz-Bengoechea,

Gallego

et al. 2024

Rev. investig. logop.

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This acoustic study compares anticipatory coarticulation characteristics of the Spanish alveolar sibilant fricative /s/ when in utterance-initial position followed by a vowel in adults with dysarthria and apraxia of speech. Three groups of participants (28 individuals with no speech disorder, 20 with dysarthria, and 8 with apraxia of speech) produced 12 monosyllabic words that included the five vowel sounds of central-peninsular Spanish. The acoustic measurements compared within and between groups were frequency of the spectral intensity peak (FreqMid) in different zones of fricative execution, magnitude of the change in frequency of the spectral intensity peak (ΔFreq) in the end zone compared to the average of the initial and middle zones, first three spectral moments, and the difference in spectral center of gravity between the middle and end zones (DiffM-E CoG). Several of these measures were able to differentiate between dysarthric and healthy speech, especially when /s/ was followed by an unrounded vowel, and the same occurred for apraxia, but this time when the adjacent vowel was rounded. While both disorders showed similar spectral patterns, the two motor speech disorders differed in terms of the measures FreqMid and DiffM-E CoG. Possible explanations for these differences are here discussed within the framework of motor control models.

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“…(Clopper et al 2005, Fox & Jacewicz 2009. For instance, low vowels can have the longest duration across languages due partly to the long time it takes for articulators to reach their targets (Solé & Ohala 2010, Derib Ado 2011. Studies of vowel duration in different languages indicate that vowels could be longer when they are produced by child and female speakers, before voiced consonants and in clear speech or slow speech (Lee, Potamianos & Narayanan 1999, Hillenbrand, Clark & Nearey 2001, Ferguson & Kewley-Port 2007.…”

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An acoustic analysis of Oromo vowels of the northern dialect

Negesse

2023

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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This study presents the results of an acoustic analysis of Oromo vowels of the northern dialect. The data for the study were collected from 19 speakers (nine female, 10 male) who produced the vowels in the same phonetic environment. Such acoustic measures as duration, fundamental frequency and the first three formant frequencies were extracted for the analysis. In a linear mixed-effects model, each acoustic parameter was modelled as a function of the fixed effects such as gender and vowel quality, and of participants’ random effects. The model shows a main effect of gender on all the acoustic measures, with the female speakers producing the vowels with significantly greater duration and formant frequencies. The model also indicates the main effect of vowel quality on all the acoustic measures with the exception of duration. The proportion of variances explained by gender and vowel quality is found to be large for fundamental frequency and the first formant frequency respectively. As regards the classification of the vowels, Support Vector Machine reveals that the time-varying frequency does not have an advantage over a steady state in separating vowels of both genders. However, it is generally fairly effective in classifying vowels of the dialect of the language.

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What is and what is not under the control of the speaker: Intrinsic vowel duration

Cited by 48 publications

References 46 publications

The Effect of Coda Voicing Contrast on Vowel Duration in American English and Najdi Arabic: A Comparison Study

The Effect of Coda Voicing Contrast on Vowel Duration in American English and Najdi Arabic: A Comparison Study

Anticipatory coarticulation of the Spanish alveolar fricative /s/ in adults with apraxia versus dysarthria

An acoustic analysis of Oromo vowels of the northern dialect

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