TY - JOUR
T1 - Prosodic effects on acoustic cues to stop voicing and place of articulation
T2 - Evidence from Radio News speech
AU - Cole, Jennifer
AU - Kim, Heejin
AU - Choi, Hansook
AU - Hasegawa-Johnson, Mark
N1 - Funding Information:
Support for this research came from the University of Illinois through a Critical Research Initiative award to J. Cole and M. Hasegawa-Johnson. The authors acknowledge very helpful comments from Marija Tabain and the editor, and from an anonymous reviewer, and are grateful to Letania Ferreira for assistance with acoustic labeling.
PY - 2007/4
Y1 - 2007/4
N2 - This study examines the effects of prosody on the acoustic cues of stop consonants, based on speech from the Boston University Radio News corpus. An investigation of VOT, f0, closure duration, burst amplitude and spectral characteristics provide evidence for a primary effect of accent (a level of phrasal prominence) on these measures as cues to stop voicing and/or place of articulation. There are robust, significant effects of accent on the acoustic cues for both voicing and place of articulation, exhibiting a general pattern of prosodic strengthening. However, the accent effect on voicing cues results in the enhancement of the phonological voice contrast, whereas the effect on acoustic cues to place of articulation does not similarly enhance the place contrast. Comparison of η2 values shows that accent effects are strongest on those measures that are weak cues to the phonological contrast, and weakest on the measures that are strong cues. While there are no observed strengthening effects of phrasal position on voicing cues for /t/ and /d/, acoustic variability is reduced in phrase-initial position.
AB - This study examines the effects of prosody on the acoustic cues of stop consonants, based on speech from the Boston University Radio News corpus. An investigation of VOT, f0, closure duration, burst amplitude and spectral characteristics provide evidence for a primary effect of accent (a level of phrasal prominence) on these measures as cues to stop voicing and/or place of articulation. There are robust, significant effects of accent on the acoustic cues for both voicing and place of articulation, exhibiting a general pattern of prosodic strengthening. However, the accent effect on voicing cues results in the enhancement of the phonological voice contrast, whereas the effect on acoustic cues to place of articulation does not similarly enhance the place contrast. Comparison of η2 values shows that accent effects are strongest on those measures that are weak cues to the phonological contrast, and weakest on the measures that are strong cues. While there are no observed strengthening effects of phrasal position on voicing cues for /t/ and /d/, acoustic variability is reduced in phrase-initial position.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.wocn.2006.03.004
DO - 10.1016/j.wocn.2006.03.004
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33847184280
SN - 0095-4470
VL - 35
SP - 180
EP - 209
JO - Journal of Phonetics
JF - Journal of Phonetics
IS - 2
ER -