2022
An 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
2019
Lingual articulatory configurations of Japanese devoiced vowels
Iwasaki R, Whalen D, Roon K, Shaw J. Lingual articulatory configurations of Japanese devoiced vowels. The Journal Of The Acoustical Society Of America 2019, 146: 3083-3084. DOI: 10.1121/1.5137710.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchTongue configurationWhispered vowelsTokyo JapaneseDevoiced vowelsNative speakers of Tokyo JapaneseWord-initial positionConsonant clustersJapanese phonologyVoiceless obstruentsVowel deletionHigh vowelsNative speakersVoice realizationVoiced counterpartsVoiced vowelsVowelsTongue contoursWord pairsWhispered speechTongueJapaneseDevoicingObstruentsPhonotacticsPhonology