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Derwing, Bruce R.; And Others – 1987
A study of consonant-vowel linkages focused on the nature of the vowel boundaries with onset and codas. Subjects judged the status of various word pairs as possible exemplars of a particular manipulation they had been taught to listen for in model nonsense words. The models were of three distinct tasks: (1) a nucleus substitution task, to replace…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Auditory Perception, Consonants, English
Ward, Gregory L.; Hirschberg, Julia – 1986
Analysis of an intonational contour generally used to convey uncertainty about the appropriateness of some evoked scale or scalar value (as in "Anna may marry Manny") is extended to accommodate both uncertainty and incredulity interpretations. This paper proposes a more general account of L*+HLH%, based on an acoustic and pragmatic…
Descriptors: Acoustic Phonetics, Auditory Perception, English, Interpersonal Communication