Some observations on the development of anticipatory coarticulation.
| Number | 530 |
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| Year | 1986 |
| Drawer | 9 |
| Entry Date | 11/18/1999 |
| Authors | Repp, B. H. |
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| Publication | J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 79(5), 1616-1619. |
| url | http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0530.pdf |
| Abstract | The influence of vowel quality on various temporal & spectral properties of preceding acoustic segments was investigated in utterances containing [(schwa)#CV] sequences produced by 2 girls aged 4:8 & 9:5 & by their father. The younger (but not the older) child's speech showed a systematic lowering of [s] noise & [th] release burst spectra before [u] as compared to [i] & [ae]. The older child's speech showed an orderly relationship of the second-formant f in [(schwa)] to the transconsonantal vowel. Both children tended to produce longer [s] noises & voice onset times as well as higher second-formant peaks at constriction noise offset before [i] than before [u] & [ae]. All effects except the first were shown by the adult who, in addition, produced first-formant frequencies in [(schwa)] that anticipated the transconsonantal vowel. These observations suggest that different forms of anticipatory coarticulation may have different causes & may follow different developmental patterns. |
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