The Influence of Force of Articulation of Consonants on Vowel Duration

Belasco, Simon

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“…This is in agreement with Peterson and Lehiste (1960). But both Einarsson (1927) and Belasco (1953) find that the duration of the vowel before r is longer than before l. Belasco says that the duration of the vowels appears to vary inversely with the degree of physiological energy required to pronounce the consonants.…”

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The Duration of some Norwegian Speech Sounds

Fintoft¹

1961

Phonetica

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The Duration of some Norwegian Speech Sounds

Fintoft¹

1961

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“…Although the specific content of these explanations varies considerably, some of them can be described as production-oriented and are based on factors related to physiological constraints on articulation, phonation, or combinations of both [Belasco, 1953;House and Fairbanks, 1953;Halle and Stevens, 1967;Chen, 1970;Lisker and Abramson, 1971;Lisker, 1974;Klatt, 1975;Goldstein and Browman, Esposito 220 1986; Fowler, 1992; among others, see also Kluender et al, 1988 for a survey of previous studies].…”

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On Vowel Height and Consonantal Voicing Effects: Data from Italian

Esposito¹

2002

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This paper reports an acoustic study of CV sequences in Italian (where C is /b, d, g, p, t, k/ and V is one of the seven Italian vowels in stressed position). It explores the effects of vowel height, consonantal voicing, and place of articulation on a number of acoustic attributes of vowels (duration, f₀, F₁), and on the duration of the preceding stop closure, VOT and RVOT (defined as the interval from C release to the acoustic vowel onset). The aim is to provide, for Italian, a comprehensive account of all the various interactions between consonantal voicing, vowel height and consonant place on the above acoustic attributes in order to propose an explanation for such effects, and to compare the present results and interpretations with previous explanations and with previous data on Italian and other languages.

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“…This is thought to take away from the total duration of the syllable containing a geminate as opposed to its single counterpart (Belasco 1953(Belasco : 1016; however, this view would suggest that syllables with geminates are comparable in length to those with singletons, which may not necessarily be the case. It is important to look at the rhythmic structure of the language in order to better understand how the phasing between vowels and consonants works within and across syllables.…”

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Geminate timing in Lebanese Arabic: the relationship between phonetic timing and phonological structure

Khattab

Al-Tamimi

2014

Laboratory Phonology

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This study investigates medial gemination patterns in Lebanese Arabic (LA). It offers an account of the duration patterns of quantity distinction for vowels and consonants in LA by using the most comprehensive dataset for this variety, and for Arabic in general, so far in terms of the number of speakers (20), the consonant types examined (24), the inspection of vowels preceding and following the consonant in durational analyses, and the inclusion of male and female speakers. The main aim is to show correspondence between phonetic timing in LA and phonological accounts of syllabic structure that are based on moraic weight (Hayes 1989;Broselow 1995;McCarthy and Prince 1995). The study extends predictions of mora-sharing in disyllables with medial clusters that are preceded by a long vowel (e.g., /ˈmaal.ħa/ 'salty-FEM-SG') to comparable syllables with a medial geminate (e.g., /ˈmaal.la/ 'bored-FEM-SG'), which have not been investigated in Arabic before. It shows that vowel shortening preceding medial geminates affects phonologically long but not short vowels, downplaying the commonly referred to closed-syllable shortening effect as the main reason for this phenomenon (Maddieson 1997). Instead, an account based on the interface between phonetic and phonological effects on compensatory vowel shortening offers better predictions.

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The Influence of Force of Articulation of Consonants on Vowel Duration

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The Duration of some Norwegian Speech Sounds

The Duration of some Norwegian Speech Sounds

On Vowel Height and Consonantal Voicing Effects: Data from Italian

Geminate timing in Lebanese Arabic: the relationship between phonetic timing and phonological structure

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