Haskins Publications

Number	111
Year	1971
Drawer	2
Entry Date	05/19/1998
Authors	Cooper, F. S., Abramson, A. S., Sawashima, M., & Lisker, L.
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Publication	Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology, 80, 678.
url	http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0111.pdf
Abstract	[Introduction] In the course of research on speech perception, and in later work on articulatory dynamics, we were led to suppose that there is a close relationship between voicing distinctions, a prominent phonetic feature of the world’s languages and the relative timing of laryngeal and supralaryngeal articulatory events. Thus, certain classes of sounds in English may be distinguished by whether or of the artytenoid cartilages move apart during the production of these sounds, and when (relative to other events) they resume a phonatory position. The voiceless fricatives of the worlds see, she and fee regularly show separation of the arytenoids, while the voiced stops of bay, day and gay do not; but some consonant classes show a degree of variability in this respect, in particular, the voiceless stops of pea, tea and key when unaspirated, as they are before unstressed vowels. The initial data were from perceptual tests and measurements of sound spectrograms; further evidence has come from observations, indirect and direct, of the laryngeal gestures.
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