Tongue musculature and the feature of tension in English vowels.
| Number | 178 |
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| Year | 1975 |
| Drawer | 3 |
| Entry Date | 07/09/1998 |
| Authors | Raphael, L. J., & Bell-Berti, F. |
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| Publication | Phonetica, 32, 61-73. |
| url | http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0178.pdf |
| Abstract | Electromyographic techniques were employed to discover which, if any, intrinsic and extrinsic tongue muscles displayed a difference in overall amount of activity corresponding to the traditional tense-lax distinction between members of the English vowel pairs /i-ยป/, /e-E/, and /u-u/. Although some muscles revealed a consistent difference, most did not. Even for those muscles where a tense-lax difference was found, the data do not support the notion that tension was a necessary or sufficient differentia of production. |
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