Closure and constriction duration for alveolar consonants during voiced and whispered speaking conditions
- 1 February 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Acoustical Society of America (ASA) in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
- Vol. 61 (2) , 612-613
- https://doi.org/10.1121/1.381309
Abstract
Normal adult speakers (10) produced the alveolar consonants /t, d, n, s, z/ in VCV [vowel-consonant-vowel] bisyllables embedded in a carrier sentence. The stimulus consonants were produced in the symmetrical contexts /j/ and /a/ under voiced and whispered speaking conditions. Spectrographic analysis of steady-state portions of vowels and closure and constriction durations for consonants revealed significant durational differences associated with speaking conditions for /t, d, s, z, i, a/. Durational effects for /n/ were nonsignificant. Implications with regard to the Schwartz hypothesis that individuals prolong air-arresting articulatory gestures in whispered speech were discussed.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: