2012
Biomechanically Preferred Consonant-Vowel Combinations Fail to Appear in Adult Spoken Corpora
Whalen D, Giulivi S, Nam H, Levitt A, Hallé P, Goldstein L. Biomechanically Preferred Consonant-Vowel Combinations Fail to Appear in Adult Spoken Corpora. Language And Speech 2012, 55: 503-515. PMID: 23420980, PMCID: PMC3580796, DOI: 10.1177/0023830911434123.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsConsonant-vowel combinationsAdult languageCV preferencesAmbient spoken languageCombinations of consonantsSpoken corpusCentral vowelsLabial consonantsDictionary dataCV combinationsConsonant-vowelConsonant/vowelBabbling measuresSpeaking frequencyBabblingVowelsEnglishDictionaryLanguageMandarinConsonantsCorpusFrenchIndividual CTokens
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