Acoustic-phonetics of coronal stops: A cross-language study of Canadian English and Canadian French

• DOI: 10.1121/1.1953270
• Publication Date: 2005-08-05T17:37:53Z
• Authors: Megha Sundara
• Keywords: Place of articulation; Voice-onset time

The study was conducted to provide an acoustic description of coronal stops in Canadian English (CE) and French (CF). CE CF differ VOT place articulation. has a two-way voicing distinction (in syllable initial position) between simultaneous aspirated release; are articulated at alveolar place. CF, on the other hand, prevoiced dental Acoustic analyses stop consonants produced by monolingual speakers for both alveolar/dental articulation, reported. Results from analysis replicate confirm differences phonetic implementation across two languages. Analysis with respect indicates systematic languages relative burst intensity measures spectral shape, specifically mean frequency, standard deviation, kurtosis. majority talkers reliably consistently tokens differing SD measure diffuseness burst. interpreted context articulatory data several