25 Nov 2003

Tim Mills and Hannele Nicholson

Previous studies have shown that contrary to expectations pitch is perceptible in whispered Chinese, Thai, Norwegian, and Swedish. An acoustic analysis of whispered Norwegian is presented which further previous perceptual results. This paper also shows from perceptual and acoustic data of Scottish English that the distinction between whispered voiced and voiceless consonants is perceptible as well. We conclude that, while differences in phonation may be significant cues to these contrasts, there are other cues that serve as adequate "backup", both in normal and whispered speech.

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