TY - JOUR
AU - Lisker, Leigh
AB - MINIMAL f.UES FOR SEPARATING fw, r, I, yf IN INTERVOCALIC POSITION* LEIGH LISKER The experiments to be described attempt to specify the major acoustic differences among the members of the set of American English phones fw, r, I, yf in intervocalic position. They represent a first systematic effort to synthesize these consonants intervo­ by the use of the Pattern Playback. The choice of calically consonants and acoustic variables was determined in the main by the results of a large number of preliminary experiments designed to answer a general question concerning the relation between a certain kind of acoustic shift and its phonetic evaluation. The question arose from the well-known observation that while ~orne portions of the speech signal are relatively steady-state in re~pect to important acoustic features, nowhere is the signal steady-state for intervals of more than a few milliseconds in "ordinary speech." Moreover this holds true even for portions that are heard as vowels whose perceived quality is steady over substantially greater durations. Since phonetically steady-state but acoustically shifting vowels are found in ordinary ~peerh contexts, the question was rah;cd • This research was supported in part by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and in part by 
TI - Minimal Cues for Separating /w, r, l, y/ in Intervocalic Position
JF - WORD
DO - 10.1080/00437956.1957.11659637
DA - 1957-08-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/minimal-cues-for-separating-w-r-l-y-in-intervocalic-position-5URkV3QTut
SP - 256
EP - 267
VL - 13
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -