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, 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
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
2014
Secondary 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
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