Metrical Structure and Production of English Rhythm

This paper examines kinematic patterns of jaw opening and associated F1 values of 4 American English speakers in productions of the sentence ‘I saw five bright highlights in the sky’. Results show strong-weak jaw opening alternations during the production of the utterance, and significant correlatio...

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Published in:Phonetica 2012-12, Vol.69 (3), p.180-190
Main Authors: Erickson, Donna, Suemitsu, Atsuo, Shibuya, Yoshiho, Tiede, Mark
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biomechanical Phenomena
Descriptive studies and applied theories
England
Female
Humans
Jaw - physiology
Language
Letter to the Editor
Linguistics
Phonetics
Speech Acoustics
Speech Articulation Tests
Speech Production Measurement
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Summary:This paper examines kinematic patterns of jaw opening and associated F1 values of 4 American English speakers in productions of the sentence ‘I saw five bright highlights in the sky’. Results show strong-weak jaw opening alternations during the production of the utterance, and significant correlation of F1 with jaw opening for 3 of the 4 speakers. The observed jaw opening patterns correspond to metrically generated syllable stress levels for productions of the sentence by these 4 speakers.
ISSN:0031-8388
1423-0321
DOI:10.1159/000342417