Articulator Features and Portuguese Vowel Height

Language ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 729
Author(s):  
Arnold M. Zwicky ◽  
Wayne J. Redenbarger
Keyword(s):  
Vowel Height

Tense? (Re)lax!

2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-71
Author(s):  
Markus A. Pöchtrager
Keyword(s):  
General Theory ◽  
Basic Structure ◽  
Government Phonology ◽  
Vowel Height

AbstractThis article looks at what is referred to as the tense/lax contrast in English and proposes that members of the two sets of vowel have the same basic structure but differ in how part of that structure is made use of by its neighbours. The proposal forms part of a general theory of the representation of vowel height within the framework of Government Phonology 2.0.

Differences in Children’s Sound Production When Speaking With a Cochlear Implant Turned On and Turned Off

1996 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 604-610 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Tye-Murray ◽  
Linda Spencer ◽  
Elizabeth Gilbert Bedia ◽  
George Woodworth
Keyword(s):  
Cochlear Implant ◽  
Speech Production ◽  
Cochlear Implants ◽  
Sound Production ◽  
Proprioceptive Feedback ◽  
Speech Sample ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists ◽  
Monosyllabic Words ◽  
Consonant Voicing ◽  
Vowel Height

Twenty children who have worn a Cochlear Corporation cochlear implant for an average of 33.6 months participated in a device-on/off experiment. They spoke 14 monosyllabic words three times each after having not worn their cochlear implant speech processors for several hours. They then spoke the same speech sample again with their cochlear implants turned on. The utterances were phonetically transcribed by speech-language pathologists. On average, no difference between speaking conditions on indices of vowel height, vowel place, initial consonant place, initial consonant voicing, or final consonant voicing was found. Comparisons based on a narrow transcription of the speech samples revealed no difference between the two speaking conditions. Children who were more intelligible were no more likely to show a degradation in their speech production in the device-off condition than children who were less intelligible. In the device-on condition, children sometimes nasalized their vowels and inappropriately aspirated their consonants. Their tendency to nasalize vowels and aspirate initial consonants might reflect an attempt to increase proprioceptive feedback, which would provide them with a greater awareness of their speaking behavior.

scholarly journals Covariation among vowel height effects on acoustic measures

2011 ◽  
Vol 130 (5) ◽  
pp. EL365-EL371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Berry ◽  
Maura Moyle
Keyword(s):  
Acoustic Measures ◽  
Vowel Height

scholarly journals Shared Vowels in English Loanwords in Arabic: Variation in Similarity-Based Adaptation

2022 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Acoustic Analysis ◽  
Vowel Duration ◽  
Vowel Sound ◽  
Vowel Quality ◽  
Vowel Length ◽  
Arabic Speakers ◽  
Vowel Systems ◽  
Saudi Arabic ◽  
Vowel Height

This paper investigates vowel adaptation in English-based loanwords by a group of Saudi Arabic speakers, concentrating exclusively on shared vowels between the two languages. It examines 5 long vowels shared by the two vowel systems in terms of vowel quality and vowel duration in loanword productions by 22 participants and checks them against the properties of the same vowels in native words. To this end, the study performs an acoustic analysis of 660 tokens (loan and native vowel sounds) through Praat to measure the first two formants (F1: vowel height and F2: vowel advancement) of each vowel sound at two temporal points of time (T1: the vowel onset and T2: the peak of the vowel) as well as a durational analysis to examine vowel length. It reports that measurements of the first two formants of vowels in native words appear to be stable during the two temporal points while values of the same vowel sounds occurring in loanwords are fluctuating from T1 to T2 and that durational differences exist between loanword vowels in comparison with vowels of native words in such a way that vowels in native words are longer in duration than the same vowels appearing in loanwords.

scholarly journals Towards functional modelling of relationships between the acoustics and perception of vowels

2005 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 133-144
Author(s):  
Hartmut R. Pfitzinger
Keyword(s):  
Steady State ◽  
Sufficient Accuracy ◽  
Acoustic Properties ◽  
Vowel Quality ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Functional Modelling ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Vowel Height

This paper summarizes our research efforts in functional modelling of the relationship between the acoustic properties of vowels and perceived vowel quality. Our model is trained on 164 short steady-state stimuli. We measured F1, F2, and additionally F0 since the effect of F0 on perceptual vowel height is evident. 40 phonetically skilled subjects judged vowel quality using the Cardinal Vowel diagram. The main focus is on refining the model and describing its transformation properties between the F1/F2 formant chart and the Cardinal Vowel diagram. An evaluation of the model based on 48 additional vowels showed the generalizability of the model and confirmed that it predicts perceived vowel quality with sufficient accuracy.  

On measuring phonetic precursor robustness: a response to Moreton

Phonology ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 491-518 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan C. L. Yu
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Biases ◽  
Universal Grammar ◽  
Linguistic Study ◽  
Relative Contribution ◽  
Vowel Height

Much debate in recent years has focused on the relative contribution of analytic and channel biases in shaping the typology of sound. Moreton (2008) argues forcefully for the strength of analytic bias, such as Universal Grammar and other non-modality-specific cognitive biases that facilitate the learning of some phonological patterns and inhibit that of others, in creating typological asymmetries on its own, unassisted by the robustness of phonetic precursors. This article focuses on the assessment of phonetic precursor robustness. The main goal of this article is two-fold: (i) to establish the inadequacy of Moreton's method of evaluating relative phonetic precursor robustness and to offer an alternative to his approach; (ii) to report the results of a cross-linguistic study comparing the nature of vowel-to-vowel coarticulation and the interaction between obstruent voicing and vowel height with the same languages – no previous studies have directly compared these two phonetic precursors.

Heritage Speakers’ Production of the Spanish Voiced Palatal Obstruent /ʝ/: A Closer Look at Orthography and Universal Phonetic Principles

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Gemma Repiso-Puigdelliura ◽  
Isabel Benvenuti ◽  
Ji Young Kim
Keyword(s):  
Stress Condition ◽  
Read Aloud ◽  
Heritage Speakers ◽  
Speech Data ◽  
Language Influence ◽  
Vowel Height

Abstract The Spanish voiced palatal obstruent /ʝ/ is orthographically represented as ⟨y⟩ or ⟨ll⟩. The most closely related sound in English is /j/, which is often written with ⟨y⟩, but produced with weaker constriction compared to the Spanish /ʝ/. Our goal is to examine influence from English (i.e., the majority language) in heritage speakers’ production of the Spanish /ʝ/ by testing the effect of orthography (i.e., whether stronger influence is found in ⟨y⟩ than in ⟨ll⟩). Heritage speech data were collected using a read-aloud task in which the stimuli varied in orthography, preceding vowel height, and stress condition. Results showed that heritage speakers predominantly produced the Spanish /ʝ/ as an English-like approximant [j], which was preferred even more when /ʝ/ was written with ⟨y⟩. However, the orthography effect surfaced only when the phonetic contexts did not favor strong constriction, suggesting that orthography-induced majority language influence is conditioned by universal phonetic principles.

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