The Duration of some Norwegian Speech Sounds

Fintoft, K.

doi:10.1159/000258096

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“…This implies, in the context, that he does not discover it in French, a conclusion which is not contradicted by the limited information on this point in D e l a t t r e and M o n n o t [9]. Figures given for Norwegian by F in t o f t [13] and for Persian by S t r a i n [30] show no difference in length between open and close vowels. L e h is t e and P o p o v [22] find that in both Bulgarian and Serbo-Croat open vowels are longer except for disturbances of the pattern in the high back region.…”

Section: Length Variation With Tongue Heightmentioning

confidence: 93%

Some Vowel Durations in Australian English

Cochrane¹

1970

Phonetica

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Section: Length Variation With Tongue Heightmentioning

confidence: 93%

Some Vowel Durations in Australian English

Cochrane¹

1970

Phonetica

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“…The /s/ has the possibility of having a very long duration (Klatt, 1974;Fintoft, 1961). Since VOT duration is longer in Norwegian IDS than ADS (Englund, in press), the longer /s/ would be needed in Norwegian IDS to maintain the manner of articulation distinction between stops and fricatives.…”

Section: Overspecified Fricative /S/mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Klatt, 1974). One study has shown that in Norwegian, [s] is the longest in duration of all consonants in initial, medial and final position in a word (Fintoft, 1961). Like other fricatives, /s/ is also produced by maintaining a relatively stable articulation throughout its duration, compared to, for example, a stop consonant, which has a closure and opening phase (Kent and Read, 1992).…”

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confidence: 99%

Changes in infant directed speech in the first six months

Englund

Behne

2006

Inf. Child Develop.

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The Mother-Infant Phonetic Interaction model (MIPhI) predicts that, compared with adult directed speech (ADS), in infant directed speech (IDS) vowels will be overspecified and consonants underspecified during the infants' first 6 months. In a longitudinal natural study, six mothers' ADS and IDS were recorded on 10 occasions during the first 6 months after their infants were born. Acoustic-phonetic measures, including the first two formant frequencies and duration for vowels and the duration of the fricative /s/, were used to test the MIPhI model with differences between IDS and ADS during the infants' first 6 months. Repeated measures analyses showed the fricative /s/ duration was stably longer in IDS, corresponding to an overspecification throughout the 6 months. The unexpected smaller vowel space for IDS than ADS was stably maintained over the six months, suggesting an underspecification of vowels. Vowel duration, which was generally longer in IDS than ADS, however, changed over time, decreasing in difference between IDS and ADS during month 3 and 4. Results invite adjustments to the MIPhI model, in particular related to infants' needs for perceptual enhancement of speech segments, and to the course of infant neurological and communicative development throughout the first 6 months.

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“…On the 5% level of confidence there is no significant difference between the duration of the initial l in accent-1 and accent-2 words. It is worth while pointing out that the average duration of / in ac cent-1 words, 74 ms, is somewhat shorter than the duration of initial / measured from series of nonsense syllables, read as accent-1 words (Fintoft, 1961), namely 95 ms. As seen from Table I there are only small differences between the arithmetic mean and the median, which indicates that the distribution of the duration values is fairly symmetrical. Contrary to the duration of l, there is a clear difference, on the 5% level, between the duration of the first vowel in accent-1 and accent-2 words.…”

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confidence: 78%

“…In Fig. 8 the duration corresponds to that of l (Fintoft, 1961). The sound following the consonant in Fig.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 98%