2022
Retention of devoiced vowels in Tokyo Japanese: Evidence from lip articulation
Iwasaki R, Roon K, Shaw J, Tiede M, Whalen D. Retention of devoiced vowels in Tokyo Japanese: Evidence from lip articulation. The Journal Of The Acoustical Society Of America 2022, 152: a287-a287. DOI: 10.1121/10.0016299.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchDevoiced vowelsTokyo JapaneseLip apertureNative speakers of Tokyo JapaneseLip articulationNative speakersVoiceless obstruentsVowel qualityVowel gesturesArticulatory gesturesLingual gesturesVowel /i/VowelsWord pairsVoice environmentJapaneseGesturesVoiceObstruentsMoraNonceArticulationTokyoControversiesDynamic evidence for the vowel gesture retention of devoiced high vowels in Tokyo Japanese
Iwasaki R, Roon K, Shaw J, Tiede M, Whalen D. Dynamic evidence for the vowel gesture retention of devoiced high vowels in Tokyo Japanese. Proceedings Of Meetings On Acoustics 2022, 46: 060004. DOI: 10.1121/2.0001691.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchTokyo JapaneseVowel gesturesDevoiced vowelsVowel contextsNative speakers of Tokyo JapaneseTongue contoursNative speakersVoiceless obstruentsHigh vowelsVowel contrastLingual gesturesLingual articulationVowelsTongue shapeVocal tractJapaneseGesturesSeries of phasesVoiceTongueObstruentsContextArticulationTokyoControversiesAn ultrasound study of high vowel devoicing in Tokyo Japanese: Evidence for the vowel gesture retention
Iwasaki R, Roon K, Shaw J, Tiede M, Whalen D. An ultrasound study of high vowel devoicing in Tokyo Japanese: Evidence for the vowel gesture retention. The Journal Of The Acoustical Society Of America 2022, 151: a63-a63. DOI: 10.1121/10.0010666.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchTokyo JapaneseVowel contextsVowel devoicingNative speakers of Tokyo JapaneseTongue shapeHigh vowel devoicingNative speakersVoiceless obstruentsVowel contrastVowel gesturesDevoiced vowelsLingual articulationTongue surface contourRelease burstVowelsVoice environmentDevoicingJapaneseTongueContextObstruentsArticulationVoiceGesturesTokyo
2000
Consonants and vowels behave differently in silent center syllables
Kang A, Whalen D. Consonants and vowels behave differently in silent center syllables. The Journal Of The Acoustical Society Of America 2000, 107: 2855-2856. DOI: 10.1121/1.429243.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSteady-state vowelsSilent centersVowel discriminationVowel identificationConsonant discriminationActivate different brain regionsConsonantal contextVowel gesturesConsonant gesturesGesture theoryVowelsSyllablesRight ear advantageConsonantsCategorical perceptionAcoustic informationBrain regionsPerceptual mechanismsEar advantageAuditory explanationsGesturesConsonant/vowelDiscrimination