Acoustic Strategies for Production of American English “retroflex” /r/
| Number | 1316 |
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| Year | 2003 |
| Drawer | 25 |
| Entry Date | 01/23/2008 |
| Authors | Zhaoyan Zhang, Susan Boyce, Carol Espy-Wilson, and Mark Tiede |
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| Publication | Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Barcelona, Spain. August 3-9, 2003. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, pp. 1125-1128. |
| url | http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL1316.pdf |
| Abstract | The variety of articulatory configurations used for American English rhotic liquids suggests that speakers used different articulatory strategies to achieve similar acoustic goals. In this paper, we focus on a variant of this liquid produced with strong retroflexion of the tongue tip and no sublingual space. Previous models of “bunched” articulatory configurations and less extreme “retroflex” versions of /r/ have ascribed the F3 resonance to the front cavity. In this paper, we propose that speakers who use the extreme retroflex version of /r/ have switched the cavity affiliation of F3 to the back cavity. |
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