Comparing the Phonetic Features of English, French, German and Spanish: An Interim Report |
Contents
RESEARCH TECHNIQUES FOR PHONETIC COMPARISON OF LANGUAGES Introduction | 7 |
The Laboratory and its Techniques | 8 |
Divisions of Research | 11 |
Copyright | |
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1817 LIBRARIES 24 frames acoustic charts affricates Allophonic American English apical apical consonants artificial speech aspiration back cavity centiseconds changes characteristic closed syllables comparison correlates diphthongs distinctive English and German factors final position flap formant frequencies formant transitions four languages frames per second French French and Spanish frequency of occurrence fricatives front cavity fundamental frequency German and Spanish GERMAN SPANISH Figure glottis harmonics intensity intervocalic intonation lenis less fronted logical stress lower MICHIGAN CHIGAN monophthongs motion picture X-rays nasal vowels non-distinctive occur open syllables palate patterns pharyngeal phonemes pitch shapes place of articulation place of stress plosive consonants postvocalic prevocalic resonance retroflexed second formant sense groups sequences short shows sonants sound Spanish and French spectrograms speech synthesizer stressed position third formant three other languages three target languages tion tongue tip UNIV unstressed syllables vocal tract voiced voiceless vowel color vowel duration vowel length words