Temporal Interrelations in Selected English CVC Utterances.

Abstract

The segment duration in a corpus of 1728 CVC utterances containing the vowel /i/ by a single speaker were measured and analyzed. Measurement of sound spectrograms was facilitated by a computer assisted television display. Various distributions of the durations under different conditions reveal a number of effects on segment durations attributable to consonant identity, consonant voicing characteristics and manners of articulation. Analyses of variance show that an interaction effect between the two consonants is statistically not significant for the durations of either consonant or of the vowel. Various models for describing and predicting the durations are given together with a discussion of their associated errors. The segmentation criteria are given in some detail as an appendix. A second appendix contains basic means and standard deviations derived from the data. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA037256

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  • Ralph H. Fertig

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  • Air Force
  • Analysis Of Variance
  • California
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  • Consonants
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