Vowel Inherent Spectral Change

Book Overview

PERCEPTION AND MODELS: Static and dynamic approaches to understanding vowel perception.- Theories of the perception of vowel inherent spectral change: A review.- Formant trajectories as acoustic correlates to speech perception.- Perception of vowel sounds with a biologically realistic information theoretic model of speech perception.- Dynamic specification theory across languages: An alternative view of vowel spectral change.- DIACHRONY AND SYNCHRONY: The contribution of dynamic formant differences in vowels to diachronic sound change.- Cross-dialectal differences in dynamic formant patterns in American English.- ACQUISITION AND APPLICATION: Developmental patterns in children's speech: Time-varying spectral change in vowels.- Vowel inherent spectral change and the second-language learner.- Vowel inherent spectral change in forensic voice comparison.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642431577
• ISBN13: 9783642431579
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"