F₀ in the Production of Lenis and Fortis Plosives
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K.J. Kohler
Abstract
The contribution of fundamental frequency (F₀) to the distinction between lenis and fortis plosives is investigated for German in monotone, falling, and rising pitch patterns. A larger F₀ drop is found in the stressed vowel before lenis, as against fortis, in disyllabic words with the contour high + fall. These F₀ differences do not have aerodynamic causes due to articulatory constraints on phonation but can be related to an active laryngeal control in two production patterns differing in overall articulatory effort and also resulting in an articulatory timing contrast. Hypotheses are formulated as regards the importance of this F₀ difference for perception, and with respect to the production and the perception of the lenis/fortis opposition along the F₀ parameter in English.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Special Section
- Contents, Vol. 39, No.4-5, 1982
- Preface
- Paper
- Interaction between Articulatory Movements and Vocal Pitch Control in Japanese Word Accent
- F₀ in the Production of Lenis and Fortis Plosives
- Algorithms and Devices for Pitch Determination of Speech Signals
- Significant Points: Pitch Period Detection as a Problem of Segmentation
- Declination: Construct or Intrinsic Feature of Speech Pitch ?
- Textual Aspects of Prosody in Swedish
- Swedish Prosody
- On the Variabilty in F₀ Patterning and the Function of F₀ Timing in Languages where Pitch Cues Stress
- What Makes Speakers Omit Pitch Accents ? An Experiment
