Intrinsic F₀ in Tense and Lax Vowels with Special Reference to German
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Eli Fischer-Jørgensen
Abstract
The main purpose of this paper is to show that the observation which is the starting point for almost all attempts at explaining intrinsic fundamental frequency (intrinsic F₀) in vowels, i.e. that it is correlated with vowel height (interpreted as tongue height), does not hold if short lax vowels are included, since they have a considerably lower tongue height but practically the same F₀ as their corresponding tense counterparts. Section 1 contains a discussion of some explanations of intrinsic F₀ and vowel height and a short exposition of its connection with other vowel features. Section 2 gives a survey of the properties of tense and lax vowels based on data from the phonetic literature. Section 3 reports on an investigation of German tense and lax front unrounded vowels, including duration, tongue height, jaw opening, vertical lip opening, formant frequencies, and F₀. Section 4 contains a discussion of various possible explanations of the results.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
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- Contents, Vol. 47, 1990
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- Intrinsic F₀ in Tense and Lax Vowels with Special Reference to German
- The Activity of the Cricothyroid Muscle and the Intrinsic Fundamental Frequency in Danish Vowels
- Effect of Speaking Rate on the Perception of Vowels
- Perception of ‘Voicing’ in Whispered Stops
- Prosodic Parameters in a Variety of Regional Danish Standard Languages, with a View towards Swedish and German
- Do Voice Recordings Reveal whether a Person Is Intoxicated? A Case Study
- Analysis of Periodic and Aperiodic Components during Fluent and Dysfluent Phases of Child and Adult Stutterers’ Speech
- Further Section
- Libri
- Index autorum
- Publications Received for Review
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Further Section
- Contents, Vol. 47, 1990
- Paper
- Intrinsic F₀ in Tense and Lax Vowels with Special Reference to German
- The Activity of the Cricothyroid Muscle and the Intrinsic Fundamental Frequency in Danish Vowels
- Effect of Speaking Rate on the Perception of Vowels
- Perception of ‘Voicing’ in Whispered Stops
- Prosodic Parameters in a Variety of Regional Danish Standard Languages, with a View towards Swedish and German
- Do Voice Recordings Reveal whether a Person Is Intoxicated? A Case Study
- Analysis of Periodic and Aperiodic Components during Fluent and Dysfluent Phases of Child and Adult Stutterers’ Speech
- Further Section
- Libri
- Index autorum
- Publications Received for Review
