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Acoustic Characteristics Of Tense And Lax Vowels Across Sentence Position In Clear Speech, Lindsay Kayne Roesler
Acoustic Characteristics Of Tense And Lax Vowels Across Sentence Position In Clear Speech, Lindsay Kayne Roesler
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The purpose of this study was to examine the acoustic characteristics of tense and lax vowels across sentence positions in clear speech. Recordings were made of 12 participants reading monosyllabic target words at varying positions within semantically meaningful sentences. Acoustic analysis was completed to determine the effects of Style (clear vs. conversational), Tenseness (tense vs. lax), and Position (sentence-medial vs. sentence-final) on vowel duration, vowel space area, vowel space dispersion, and vowel peripheralization. The results showed speakers had longer durations and expanded vowel spaces in clear speech for both tense and lax vowels. Importantly, the amount of increase was similar …