Acoustics of the Vowel Preliminaries

It seems as if the fundamentals of how we produce vowels and how they are acoustically represented have been clarified: we phonate and articulate. Using our vocal chords, we produce a vocal sound or noise which is then shaped into a specific vowel sound by the resonances of the pharyngeal, oral, and...

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Autor principal: Maurer, Dieter (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bern : Peter Lang AG 2016.
Edición:1st, new ed
Colección:Peter Lang Open Access ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39312094*spi
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  • Prevailing Theory – Prevailing Empirical References – Vowels and Number of Formants – Vowels and Fundamental Frequency – Formant Patterns and Speaker Groups – Terms of Reference, Methods of Formant Estimation – Unsystematic Correspondence between Vowels, Patterns of Relative Spectral Energy Maxima and Formant Patterns – Lack of Correspondence between Vowels and Patterns of Relative Spectral Energy Maxima or Formant Patterns – Ambiguous Correspondence between Vowels and Patterns of Relative Spectral Energy Maxima or Formant Patterns or Complete Spectral Envelopes – Lack of Correspondence between Patterns of Relative Spectral Energy Maxima or Formant Patterns and Speaker Groups or Vocal-Tract Sizes – Lack of Correlation between Methodological Limitations of Formant Determination and Limitations of Vowel Perception – Empirical Falsification despite Methodological Limitations of Determining Patterns of Relative Spectral Envelope Maxima or Formant Patterns.