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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
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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
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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
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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