Tongue position in rounded and unrounded front vowel pairs.
| Number | 266 |
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| Year | 1979 |
| Drawer | 5 |
| Entry Date | 06/03/1999 |
| Authors | Raphael, L. J., Bell-Berti, F., Collier, R., & Baer, T. |
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| Publication | Language and Speech, 22, 37-48. |
| url | http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0266.pdf |
| Abstract | Traditional articulatory descriptions of front rounded & unrounded vowel pairs have assumed that tongue height is the same for members of the pairs /i-y/, /e-o/, & /(Epsilon)-oe/. Test utterances containing 12 Dutch vowels including those listed embedded in /(schwa)p-vowel-p/ nonsense words were spoken by a native speaker of Dutch & analyzed. Electromyographic, articulatory synthetic, & acoustic investigations indicate that, in Dutch, the rounded member of the pairs /i-y/ & /e-o/ is centralized. In the vowel bears a different relationship to its unrounded counterpart. It is suggested that the latter pair is not a rounded-unrounded pair in the same sense as the former two pairs. The different implementation of vowel height in rounded & unrounded vowels is discussed. |
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