By electronically segmenting stimuli in German, two tests of perception of quantity related to tense or lax syllabic quantity were made possible. In one, the physical duration of the stressed vowel was shortened, and in the other, the occlusion of the consonant following the stressed vowel was shortened. (MSE)

Vowel quality in pretonic syllables seems to result both from the interaction of the four main parameters of stress within the syllable and from the relationship of these values to those of the tonic vowel. (Author/MSE)

Spectral compositions of voiced initial stops reveal that these consonants are longer in intensity than those in medial or final position. In final stops the vocal cords are more closed than they are in initial stops and oscillation is richer. (SC)

Research supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation. (DD)

The salience of voiced onset time (VOT) as a voicing cue for initial stop-vowel units is examined. VOT duration was altered. Findings did not indicate that changes in VOT duration altered the perception of voicing. Aspiration more than VOT seems to be more important in the detection of voicing. (SC)

Reports on a study of voiced onset time in initial voiced stops in various vocalic contexts. (Author/AM)

A study of the opposition in terms of duration between long and short vowels in the German phonological system. Tables, graphs and analyses accompany the conclusions discussed. Since physical time is not the only distinctive feature, loss of the temporal cue is compensated for by spectral cues. (Text is in French.) (AMH)

Adapted from the author's M.A. thesis, University of Queensland, 1971; slightly revised version of a paper presented at the 1973 Conference of the Linguistic Society of Australia. (DD)

The study investigated the rate of oral air flow for plosive consonants produced by 10 normal hearing adult males, 10 hearing impaired adult males who demonstrated intelligible speech, and 10 hearing impaired adult males with semi-intelligible speech. (Author)

Paper presented at the 1972 International Conference on Speech Communication and Processing, Boston, Mass.; research supported by the National Institutes of Health. (DD)

A description of the three contrasting Korean affricates as analyzed by means of a Sona-Graph sound spectograph (Model 6061A) is presented. Duration and intensity studies seem to indicate that these affricates are distinguishable by duration and intensity resulting from three different manners of articulation. The research represented in this…

Develops a method of analyzing and describing the acoustic properties of fricatives, which consists of making frequency spectra using the Fast Fourier Transform and then analyzing the spectra in terms of critical bands. The six fricatives of Chinese are analyzed by this method, and comparison with other languages is made. (SED)

Part of Lexicography and Dialect Geography, Festgabe for Hans Kurath''. (DD)