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Kuhnert, Barbara; Hoole, Phil – Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 2004
A simultaneous EPG/EMA study of tongue gestures of five speakers was conducted to investigate the kinematic events accompanying alveolar stop reductions in the context of a velar plosive /k/ and in the context of a laryngeal fricative /h/ in two languages, English and German. No systematic language differences could be detected. Alveolar…
Descriptors: English, German, Contrastive Linguistics, Physiology
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Robb, Michael P.; Maclagan, Margaret A.; Chen, Yang – Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics, 2004
Various acoustic measures of speaking rate were calculated for 40 adult speakers of New Zealand English (NZE). These measures were then compared to a group of 40 adult speakers of American English (AE). Results of the analysis identified significantly faster overall speaking rate and articulation rate for the NZE group compared to the AE group. No…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, English, Language Variation