Haskins Publications

Number	276
Year	1979
Drawer	5
Entry Date	06/03/1999
Authors	Bell-Berti, F., Baer, T., Harris, K. S., & Niimi, S.
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Publication	Phonetica, 36, 187-193.
url	http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0276.pdf
Abstract	Velar elevation data were collected for 12 utterance pairs contrasting in vowel quality from human subjects. It is well-known that velar position for any phonetic segment is determined by at least 2 factors: the nature of the segment itself and the phonetic environment in which the segment occurs. Thus, velar elevation increases through the series of segment types: nasals, open vowels, close vowels, obstruents; and velar elevation for English vowels is affected by adjacent nasals. Vowel quality affected velar position during adjacent consonants: i.e., the velum was lower for both nasals and obstruents in an environment of open vowels than in an environment of close vowels.
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