2022
Dynamic 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
2020
Effects of Ultrasound Familiarization on Production and Perception of Nonnative Contrasts
Roon K, Kang J, Whalen D. Effects of Ultrasound Familiarization on Production and Perception of Nonnative Contrasts. Phonetica 2020, 77: 350-393. PMID: 32008006, PMCID: PMC9188028, DOI: 10.1159/000505298.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsUltrasound familiarityNonnative speech soundsPresence of palatalizationClasses of soundsPalatal consonantsWord-finalNonnative contrastsRussian consonantsFamiliarizing learnersLearner groupsSpeech soundsNaive learnersLearnersUltrasound learnersNovel contextsConsonantsFamiliarityContextSoundPostfamiliarizationDiscrimination taskDiscrimination trainingTongueTaskPerception
2017
Effects of consonant voicing on vocalic segment duration across resonants and prosodic boundaries
Whalen D. Effects of consonant voicing on vocalic segment duration across resonants and prosodic boundaries. The Journal Of The Acoustical Society Of America 2017, 141: 3702-3702. DOI: 10.1121/1.4988084.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchUltrasound Images of the Tongue: A Tutorial for Assessment and Remediation of Speech Sound Errors.
Preston J, McAllister Byun T, Boyce S, Hamilton S, Tiede M, Phillips E, Rivera-Campos A, Whalen D. Ultrasound Images of the Tongue: A Tutorial for Assessment and Remediation of Speech Sound Errors. Journal Of Visualized Experiments 2017 PMID: 28117824, PMCID: PMC5351819, DOI: 10.3791/55123.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSpeech sound errorsSpeech soundsSound errorsTongue shapeProduction of speech soundsClinical populationsSpeech-language pathologistsArticulatory natureIncorrect productionsError soundsSpeechSource of feedbackUltrasound feedbackSpeech therapyLingual soundsTongueExtended exampleSoundSpeakersClinical contextVisual feedbackIllustrative modelPathologistsContextClinicians
2014
Ultrasound evidence for place of articulation of the mora nasal /ɴ/ in Japanese
Mizoguchi A, Whalen D. Ultrasound evidence for place of articulation of the mora nasal /ɴ/ in Japanese. The Journal Of The Acoustical Society Of America 2014, 136: 2103-2103. DOI: 10.1121/1.4899565.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSecondary gestures for consonants: An electromagnetic articulometer study of troughs
Nam H, Shadle C, Tiede M, Saltzman E, Whalen D. Secondary gestures for consonants: An electromagnetic articulometer study of troughs. The Journal Of The Acoustical Society Of America 2014, 135: 2196-2196. DOI: 10.1121/1.4877159.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchTongue bodyVowel contextsIntraoral air pressureConsonant lengthArticulatory PhonologyVowel targetsAnticipatory coarticulationTrained phoneticiansNon-wordsReal wordsArticulation activitiesVowelsHypothesis 2GesturesHypothesis 1TongueContextPhonologyCoarticulationConsonantsPhoneticiansLabialsVCVWordsArticulation
2012
A gestural account of the velar fricative in Navajo
Iskarous K, McDonough J, Whalen D. A gestural account of the velar fricative in Navajo. Laboratory Phonology Journal Of The Association For Laboratory Phonology 2012, 3: 195-210. PMID: 24765216, PMCID: PMC3994885, DOI: 10.1515/lp-2012-0011.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchArticulatory PhonologyVelar fricativeFramework of Articulatory PhonologyAmount of coarticulationTask-dynamic modelAthabaskan languagesPhonological accountAllophonic variationGestural accountLinguistic useFricative phonemesCoarticulationPhonologyFricativesLanguageVowelsMorphological constraintsNavajoVelarsPhoneticsArticulatoryPhonemeAccountsArticulationContext
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