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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, 81: 509-552. PMID: 39279469, PMCID: PMC11449382, DOI: 10.1515/phon-2023-0023.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchTongue shapeRhotic soundsSyllable positionEffect of syllable positionPhonetic variationPhonetic featuresVowel contextsHigher F2Speech productionArticulatory featuresFricative noiseRhoticsAcoustic differencesMandarinAcoustic featuresPrevocalicLanguageTonguePostvocalicRetroflexVowelsArticulatorySpeakersSoundSpeech
2022
Acoustic effects of syllable position of English /s/: Is there a “dark” [s]?
Lombardo D, Whalen D, Chen W, Shadle C. Acoustic effects of syllable position of English /s/: Is there a “dark” [s]? Proceedings Of Meetings On Acoustics 2022, 46: 060005. DOI: 10.1121/2.0001725.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2012
Lexical effects on the perception of /l/ allophones in English
Whalen D, Beller-Marino Y, Kakadelis S, Dawson K, Best C, Irwin J. Lexical effects on the perception of /l/ allophones in English. The Journal Of The Acoustical Society Of America 2012, 132: 2053-2053. DOI: 10.1121/1.4755557.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchEnglish wordsLexical effectsMonosyllabic English wordsSyllable codaEnglish utterancesPhonotactic rulesSyllable positionLexical statusAllophonesWordsNonwordsFrequency of occurrenceItemsPronunciationPhoneticiansEnglishUtterancesPerceptionPseudowordsListenersCodaPrevious workLikert scaleVersionRepresentation