scholarly journals Articulatory and acoustic characteristics of the Korean and English word-final laterals produced by Korean female learners of American English

2019 ◽  
Vol 146 (5) ◽  
pp. EL444-EL450
Author(s):  
Young Hwang ◽  
Steven M. Lulich ◽  
Kenneth J. de Jong
Keyword(s):  
American English ◽  
English Word ◽  
Acoustic Characteristics ◽  
Korean And English

Relationship between the target word form and children’s productions: place of articulation in Consonant-Vowel-Consonant (C1VC2) words in American English

Phonetica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-94
Author(s):  
Katsura Aoyama ◽  
Barbara L. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Target Word ◽  
American English ◽  
English Word ◽  
Word Form ◽  
Single Word ◽  
Place Of Articulation ◽  
Target Words

Abstract The aim of the present study was to investigate relationships between characteristics of children’s target words and their actual productions during the single-word period in American English. Word productions in spontaneous and functional speech from 18 children acquiring American English were analyzed. Consonant sequences in 3,328 consonant-vowel-consonant (C1VC2) target words were analyzed in terms of global place of articulation (labials, coronals, and dorsals). Children’s actual productions of place sequences were compared between target words containing repeated place sequences (e.g., mom, map, dad, not) and target words containing variegated place sequences (e.g., mat, dog, cat, nap). Overall, when the target word contained two consonants at the same global place of articulation (e.g., labial-labial, map; coronal-coronal, not), approximately 50% of children’s actual productions matched consonant place characteristics. Conversely, when the target word consisted of variegated place sequences (e.g., mat, dog, cat, nap), only about 20% of the productions matched the target consonant sequences. These results suggest that children’s actual productions are influenced by their own production abilities as well as by the phonetic forms of target words.

Acoustic characteristics of American English vowels

1995 ◽  
Vol 97 (5) ◽  
pp. 3099-3111 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Hillenbrand ◽  
Laura A. Getty ◽  
Michael J. Clark ◽  
Kimberlee Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
American English ◽  
Acoustic Characteristics ◽  
English Vowels

scholarly journals The acoustic characteristics of non-native American English vowels

Linguistica ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-72
Author(s):  
Biljana Čubrović
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Native American ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
American English ◽  
The United States ◽  
Vowel Quality ◽  
Acoustic Characteristics ◽  
Language Background ◽  
English Vowels ◽  
Native Speech

This study aims at discussing the phonetic property of vowel quality in English, as exercised by both native speakers of General American English (AE) and non-native speakers of General American English of Serbian language background, all residents of the United States. Ten Serbian male speakers and four native male speakers of AE are recorded in separate experiments and their speech analyzed acoustically for any significant phonetic differences, looking into a set of monosyllabic English words representing nine vowels of AE. The general aim of the experiments is to evaluate the phonetic characteristics of AE vowels, with particular attention to F1 and F2 values, investigate which vowels differ most in the two groups of participants, and provide some explanations for these variations. A single most important observation that is the result of this vowel study is an evident merger of three pairs of vowels in the non-native speech: /i ɪ/, /u ʊ/, and /ɛ æ/.

scholarly journals Acoustic characteristics of American English /ɹ/ and /l/ produced by Japanese adults and children

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katsura Aoyama ◽  
James E. Flege ◽  
Reiko Akahane-Yamada ◽  
Tsuneo Yamada
Keyword(s):  
American English ◽  
Acoustic Characteristics ◽  
Japanese Adults ◽  
Adults And Children
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