2024
What R Mandarin Chinese /ɹ/s? – acoustic and articulatory features of Mandarin Chinese rhotics
Chen S, Whalen D, Mok P. What R Mandarin Chinese /ɹ/s? – acoustic and articulatory features of Mandarin Chinese rhotics. Phonetica 2024, 0 PMID: 39279469, DOI: 10.1515/phon-2023-0023.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchTongue shapeRhotic soundsSyllable positionEffect of syllable positionPhonetic variationPhonetic featuresVowel contextsHigher F2Speech productionArticulatory featuresFricative noiseRhoticsAcoustic differencesMandarinAcoustic featuresPrevocalicLanguageTonguePostvocalicRetroflexVowelsArticulatorySpeakersSoundSpeechProduction of the English /ɹ/ by Mandarin-English Bilingual Speakers.
Chen S, Whalen D, Mok P. Production of the English /ɹ/ by Mandarin-English Bilingual Speakers. Language And Speech 2024, 238309241230895. PMID: 38462718, DOI: 10.1177/00238309241230895.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMandarin-English bilingualsRhotic soundsL2 speech learningEnglish proficiency levelsNative English speakersMechanisms of speech productionL2 learnersMandarin-EnglishPhonetic realizationBilingual speakersNative speakersEnglish speakersLanguage proficiencyProficiency levelsPhonetic similaritySpeech learningF3-F2Fricative noiseSpeech productionBilingualsEnglishHigher F3Native-likeTongue shapeMandarin
1992
Duration of the acoustic components of infrequent and frequent words
Whalen D. Duration of the acoustic components of infrequent and frequent words. The Journal Of The Acoustical Society Of America 1992, 92: 2442-2442. DOI: 10.1121/1.404577.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
1991
Perception of the English /s/-/integral of/ distinction relies on fricative noises and transitions, not on brief spectral slices.
Whalen D. Perception of the English /s/-/integral of/ distinction relies on fricative noises and transitions, not on brief spectral slices. The Journal Of The Acoustical Society Of America 1991, 90: 1776-85. PMID: 1960273, DOI: 10.1121/1.401658.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
1990
Asymmetries in vowel-fricative and fricative-vowel information
Whalen D. Asymmetries in vowel-fricative and fricative-vowel information. The Journal Of The Acoustical Society Of America 1990, 87: s117-s118. DOI: 10.1121/1.2027867.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
1987
Qualitative separateness in children's speech
Nittrouer S, Whalen D. Qualitative separateness in children's speech. The Journal Of The Acoustical Society Of America 1987, 82: s84-s84. DOI: 10.1121/1.2025025.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchChildren's speechVowel contextsFricative noiseAdult speechChild speakersPhonetic unitsFricative identificationAcoustic differencesF2 frequenciesAdult listenersAcoustic analysisListenersSpeechGross spectrumPerceptual segmentationAcoustic informationSyllablesYoung childrenAdultsChildrenAllophonesVowelsSpeakersContextHypothesis
1985
Effects of subcategorical mismatches on shadowing
Whalen D. Effects of subcategorical mismatches on shadowing. The Journal Of The Acoustical Society Of America 1985, 77: s9-s9. DOI: 10.1121/1.2022638.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
1984
Vowel information is integrated across intervening nonlinguistic sounds
Whalen D, Samuel A. Vowel information is integrated across intervening nonlinguistic sounds. The Journal Of The Acoustical Society Of America 1984, 75: s85-s86. DOI: 10.1121/1.2021655.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
1983
Vocalic formant transitions are integrated with noncontiguous fricative noises
Whalen D. Vocalic formant transitions are integrated with noncontiguous fricative noises. The Journal Of The Acoustical Society Of America 1983, 74: s90-s90. DOI: 10.1121/1.2021216.Peer-Reviewed Original Research