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Duration Modulation in English and Spanish Vowels: Dynamic Time Warping as a Tool for Acoustic Phonetics
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Duration Modulation in English and Spanish Vowels: Dynamic Time Warping as a Tool for Acoustic Phonetics
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Regier, Kirsten Rebecca Todt, author. (orcid)0000-0003-2309-1956
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9780438129771
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1 electronic resource (168 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-11(E), Section: A.
Advisors: Kenneth de Jong Committee members: Kelly Berkson; Markus Dickinson; Erik Willis.
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Native speakers of American English use vowel duration modulation to signal the phonemic identity of vowels and to cue the voicing of a post-vocalic consonant. While advanced learners of English may modify their use of durational modulation to approximate the durational patterns of native-English patterns, previous studies have shown that they do not produce English-like durational patterns. Two groups of bilingual speakers (L1 English L2 Spanish, and L1 Spanish L2 English) produced English tokens that varied in the vowel phoneme and in the voicing of the post-vocalic consonant. The durations and F1 trajectories of the productions are interpreted using the gestural analysis framework via a dynamic time warping (DTW) algorithm. For English vowel phoneme contrasts, both L1 English speakers and L1 Spanish speakers rely on the rephasing of the closing gesture to produce durational modulation. For the English post-vocalic consonant voicing contrast, L1 Spanish speakers rely on rephasing of the closing gesture, however L1 English speakers show a pattern of shortening the closing gesture for voiceless post-vocalic consonants.
In summary, English speakers use two distinct gestural patterns for two distinct durational modulations, while Spanish speakers use only one gestural pattern when producing both of the English duration contrasts. The results show that gestural analysis can shed light onto durational modulation, and that DTW may provide a technical tool to operationalize gestural analysis.
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