Year: 1992
Type: conference-abstract
Abstract: This study sought to explore previous claims made about the interaction of several linguistic timing factors, and subsequently, to develop rules for the duration of vowels in several metrical environments. Two-word phrases that resembled personal names, like TuckTuckhouse, TackeryleTack and TickyTick, were constructed. The vowels [i, i, æ, Λ] were used as the stressed vowel in the word types Tuck, leTuck, deleTuck, Tucky, Tuckery, and Tuckhouse. For each vowel, the six word types were fully crossed, creating a list of 36 phrases. Three speakers produced three repetitions each. Measurements were made of the major segments in the stressed syllable of each word (t-voice-onset time, the vowel, and k closure), as well as of the word and phrase as a whole. The incompressibility property was observed for the interaction of word identity by position-in-phrase [cf. D. H. Klatt, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 59, 1208–1221 (1976)], while the constant ratio hypothesis was found for the vowel by position-in-phrase interaction [partly replicating R. F. Port, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 69, 262–274 (1981)]. A formal timing model, suitable for use in speech-synthesis-by-rule, is proposed to model these results.
DOI: 10.1121/1.404555
Authors: Catherine L. Rogers, Robert F. Port
Institutions: Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana University
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2040429568