Spectrographic Study of Vowel Reduction 论文

详细信息

发表期刊/会议

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

发表日期

1963-11-01

发表年份

1963

摘要

Measurements of formant frequencies and duration are reported for 8 Swedish vowels uttered by a male talker in three consonantal environments under varying timing conditions. An exponential function is used to describe the extent to which formant frequencies in the vowels reach their target values as a function of vowel-segment duration. A target is specified by the asymptotic values of the first two formant frequencies of the vowel and is independent of consonantal context and duration. It is thus an invariant attribute of the vowel. The results suggest an interpretation in terms of a simple dynamic model of vowel articulation.