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The Formants of Monophthong Vowels in Standard Southern British English Pronunciation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 February 2009

David Deterding
David Deterding
Affiliation:
National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, 469 Bukit Timah Road, Singapore259756 e-mail: deterdingd@nievax.nie.ac.sg
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Abstract

The formants of the eleven monophthong vowels of Standard Southern British (SSB) pronunciation of English were measured for five male and five female BBC broadcasters whose speech was included in the MARSEC database. The measurements were made using linear-prediction-based formant tracks overlaid on digital spectrograms for an average of ten instances of each vowel for each speaker. These measurements were taken from connected speech, allowing comparison with previous formant values measured from citation words. It was found that the male vowels were significantly less peripheral in the measurements from connected speech than in measurements from citation words.

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Journal of the International Phonetic Association , Volume 27 , Issue 1-2 , June 1997 , pp. 47 - 55
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Copyright © Journal of the International Phonetic Association 1997

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