Time‐varying features as correlates of place of articulation in stop consonants

1983 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 322-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Kewley‐Port
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. P. Prathosh ◽  
A. G. Ramakrishnan ◽  
T. V. Ananthapadmanabha

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
LAURA C. DILLEY ◽  
AMANDA L. MILLETT ◽  
J. DEVIN MCAULEY ◽  
TONYA R. BERGESON

ABSTRACTPronunciation variation is under-studied in infant-directed speech, particularly for consonants. Regressive place assimilation involves a word-final alveolar stop taking the place of articulation of a following word-initial consonant. We investigated pronunciation variation in word-final alveolar stop consonants in storybooks read by forty-eight mothers in adult-directed or infant-directed style to infants aged approximately 0;3, 0;9, 1;1, or 1;8. We focused on phonological environments where regressive place assimilation could occur, i.e., when the stop preceded a word-initial labial or velar consonant. Spectrogram, waveform, and perceptual evidence was used to classify tokens into four pronunciation categories: canonical, assimilated, glottalized, or deleted. Results showed a reliable tendency for canonical variants to occur in infant-directed speech more often than in adult-directed speech. However, the otherwise very similar distributions of variants across addressee and age group suggested that infants largely experience statistical distributions of non-canonical consonantal pronunciation variants that mirror those experienced by adults.


1979 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Ellen Tekieli ◽  
Walter L. Cullinan

The minimum initial-portion durations required by listeners for the correct identification of spoken isolated vowels and consonant-vowel (CV) syllables were determined. Eight vowels /i i u u æ ε a Λ/ and 64 CVs comprised of each of eight consonants /b p d t g k d 3 t∫/ in combination with each of the eight vowels were used. Segments consisted of the initial 10 to 150 milliseconds of each stimulus in 10-msec steps. The major findings were (1) clues for better than chance correct identification of tongue advancement and tongue height values for isolated vowels occur within the first 10 msec of the stimuli whereas approximately 30 msec of the stimuli are needed for the tense-lax feature to reach threshold, (2) clues for better than chance correct identification of place of articulation for the stop consonants are found within the initial 10 msec of the CVs whereas approximately 22 msec are needed for the voicing threshold to reach threshold, and (3) the threshold of voicing increases from front to back place of articulation for the stop consonants. The implications of the findings are discussed.


1984 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 581-589 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda C. Walley ◽  
David B. Pisoni ◽  
Richard N. Aslin

1983 ◽  
Vol 73 (5) ◽  
pp. 1779-1793 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Kewley‐Port ◽  
David B. Pisoni ◽  
Michael Studdert‐Kennedy

2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
MEGHA SUNDARA ◽  
LINDA POLKA ◽  
SHARI BAUM

This study investigated acoustic-phonetics of coronal stop production by adult simultaneous bilingual and monolingual speakers of Canadian English (CE) and Canadian French (CF). Differences in the phonetics of CF and CE include voicing and place of articulation distinctions. CE has a two-way voicing distinction (in syllable initial position) contrasting short-and long-lag VOT; coronal stops in CE are described as alveolar. CF also has a two-way voicing distinction, but contrasting lead and short-lag VOT; coronal stops in CF are described as dental. Acoustic analyses of stop consonants for both VOT and dental/alveolar place of articulation are reported. Results indicate that simultaneous bilingual as well as monolingual adults produce language-specific differences, albeit not in the same way, across CF and CE for voicing and place. Similarities and differences between simultaneous bilingual and monolingual adults are discussed to address phonological organization in simultaneous bilingual adults.


1978 ◽  
Vol 64 (5) ◽  
pp. 1358-1368 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. N. Stevens ◽  
S. E. Blumstein

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