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The Relationship between the Perception and Production of Coarticulation during a Sound Change in Progress
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Kleber, Felicitas; Harrington, Jonathan; Reubold, Ulrich – Language and Speech, 2012
The present study is concerned with lax /[upsilon]/-fronting in Standard British English and in particular with whether this sound change in progress can be attributed to a waning of the perceptual compensation for the coarticulatory effects of context. Younger and older speakers produced various monosyllables in which /[upsilon]/ occurred in…
Descriptors: Age, Speech, Language Variation, Auditory Perception
Height Differences in English Dialects: Consequences for Processing and Representation
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Scharinger, Mathias; Lahiri, Aditi – Language and Speech, 2010
This study examines the role of abstractness during the activation of a lexical representation. Abstractness and conflict are directly modeled in our approach by invoking lexical representations in terms of contrastive phonological features. In two priming experiments with English nouns differing only in vowel height of their stem vowels (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Dialects, Vowels, Phonology, Nouns
Stress-Induced Variation in F2 Trajectories as Evidence for Coproduction in CV Syllables.
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Tjaden, Kris – Language and Speech, 1999
Explored the extent to which a model of the acoustic consequences of overlapping, sliding consonantal and vocalic gestures was used to account for stress-induced changes in F2 trajectories occurring in test words embedded in a carrier phrase. Three stress conditions were studied including contrastive stress on test words, contrastive stress on the…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Contrastive Linguistics, Language Variation, Models
Quantitative Characterizations of Speech Rhythm: Syllable-Timing in Singapore English.
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Ling, Ee Low; Grabe, Esther; Nolan, Francis – Language and Speech, 2000
Explores the acoustic nature of Singapore English. In directly comparable samples of British and Singapore English, two types of acoustic measurements were taken--calculation of a variability index reflecting changes in vowel length over utterances, and measurements reflecting vowel quality. Findings provide acoustic data that support the…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Contrastive Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Language Rhythm
Variability in Fricative Production and Spectra: Implications for the Hyper- and Hypo- and Quantal Theories of Speech Production.
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Tabain, Marija – Language and Speech, 2001
Fricative spectral data are compared with articulatory data from electropalatographic (EPG) recordings in an investigation of coarticulatory effects on the acoustic signal. Data were taken from CV tokens produced by four female speakers of Australian English. Results are presented for coronal fricatives in seven monothong vowel contexts.…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Articulation (Speech), Comparative Analysis, Females
Dialectal Variation in the Lexical Tone System.
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Remijsen, Bert – Language and Speech, 2001
Discusses dialectal variation in the lexical tone system of Ma'ya, an Austronesian language featuring three lexically contrastive tonemes. Representative acoustic data were collected from the Missol, Slawati, and Laganyan dialects, and on the basis of these data, an account is given of their tone systems and of how these tone systems compare to…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Contrastive Linguistics, Dialects, Language Variation
A Contrastive Study of Prosody and Lexical Stress Placement in Singapore English and British English.
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Ling, Low Ee; Grabe, Esther – Language and Speech, 1999
Tests experimentally whether stress placement in polysyllabic words differs in Singapore English (SE) and British English (BE), or whether acoustic correlates of stress differ in the two English varieties. Results suggest word-final stress in SE is not result of lexical stress placement, but combination of lengthening of final-syllable words in…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, College Students, Contrastive Linguistics, Foreign Countries