The Centre for Speech Technology Research, The university of Edinburgh

15 Nov 2005

Olga Gordeeva (QMUC)


Laryngeal correlates of the English tense/lax vowel contrast

This study explores the possibility of an additional phonetic dimension to the English tense/lax vowel contrast involving differentiated vocal effort at the laryngeal level. The laryngeal dimension is assessed acoustically (Sluijter, 1995; Jessen 2002) and more directly by using electroglottography in conjunction with Marashek's (1997) model of the EGG signal. The EGG results are based on the MOCHA (Wrench, 2000) corpus.

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