Department of Linguistics
SPEECH ACOUSTICS
Vowel Acoustics
Felicity
Cox
1. Topic Outline for Weeks 5, 6 and 7
| a. |
Differentiating consonants and vowels |
| b. |
Articulatory description of vowels |
| c. |
Revision of cardinal vowels |
| d. |
Acoustic consequences of vowel articulation |
| e. |
Revision of tube resonance/source-filter theory |
| f. |
Nomograms |
| g. |
The relationship between formants and resonances |
| h. |
Spectrograms |
| i. |
Formant structure for individual vowels |
| j. |
Measuring targets |
| k. |
Monophthong characteristics |
| l. |
Ellipse plots / quadrilaterals |
| m. |
Diphthong characteristics |
| n. |
Individual differences in production |
| o. |
Normalisation |
| p. |
Vowel studies |
| q. |
Coarticulation |
2. Sample Vowel Spectrograms
3. Readings for Vowel Lectures
- Cox (1996)
- Cox, F. and Palethorpe, S. (2007) An illustration of the IPA: Australian English, Journal of the International Phonetic Association, 37, 341-350.
- Clark and Yallop, pp 266-274
- Harrington and Cassidy, pp 57-78
