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A cross-linguistic acoustic study of voiceless fricatives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2003

Matthew Gordon ,
Paul Barthmaier  and
Kathy Sands
Matthew Gordon
Affiliation:
University of California, Santa Barbara mgordon@linguistics.ucsb.edu
Paul Barthmaier
Affiliation:
University of California, Santa Barbara mgordon@linguistics.ucsb.edu
Kathy Sands
Affiliation:
University of California, Santa Barbara mgordon@linguistics.ucsb.edu
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Abstract

Results of an acoustic study of voiceless fricatives in seven languages are presented. Three measurements were taken: duration, center of gravity, and overall spectral shape. In addition, formant transitions from adjacent vowels were measured for a subset of the fricatives in certain languages. Fricatives were well differentiated in terms of overall spectral shape and their co-articulation effects on formant transitions for adjacent vowels. The center of gravity measurement also proved useful in differentiating certain fricatives. Duration generally was less useful in differentiating the fricatives. In general, results were consistent across speakers and languages, with lateral fricatives displaying the greatest interlanguage variation in their acoustic properties and /s/ providing the greatest source of interspeaker variation.

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Research Article
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Journal of the International Phonetic Association , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , December 2002 , pp. 141 - 174
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Journal of the International Phonetic Association 2002

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