D H Whalen
Biographic Data
| ID | 637172 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D H Whalen |
| GIVEN NAMES | D H |
| FAMILY NAME | Whalen |
| SIGNATURE | WHALEN D H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Haskins Laboratories |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3974-0084 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 225 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Planning competing values of a single phonological feature vs. planning values for multiple features
Talker variability versus variability of vowel context in training naïve learners on an unfamiliar class of foreign language contrasts
Production of the English /ɹ/ by Mandarin–English Bilingual Speakers
Rhotic sounds are some of the most challenging sounds for L2 learners to acquire. This study investigates the production of English rhotic sounds by Mandarin–English bilinguals with two English proficiency levels. The production of the English /ɹ/ by 17 Mandarin–English bilinguals was examined with ultrasound imaging and compared with the production of native English speakers. The ultrasound data show that bilinguals can produce native-like bunch…
Assessing ultrasound probe stabilization for quantifying speech production contrasts using the Adjustable Laboratory Probe Holder for UltraSound (ALPHUS)
Phonetic documentation in three collections
Phonetic aspects of many languages have been documented, though the breadth and focus of such documentation varies substantially. In this survey, phonetic aspects (here called ‘categories’) that are typically reported were assessed in three English-language collections – the Illustrations of the IPA from the Journal of the International Phonetic Association , articles from the Journal of Phonetics , and papers from the Ladefoged/Maddieson Sounds …
A dual mechanism for intrinsic f0
Phonetic structure in Yoloxóchitl Mixtec consonants
While Mixtec languages are well-known for their tonal systems, there remains relatively little work focusing on their consonant inventories. This paper provides an in-depth phonetic description of the consonant system of the Yoloxóchitl Mixtec language (Oto-Manguean, ISO 639-3 codexty), a Guerrero Mixtec variety. The language possesses a number of contrasts common among Mixtec languages, such as voiceless unaspirated stops, prenasalized stops, an…
Obituary
Voice onset time and beyond
we have compiled eleven studies investigating the voicing contrast in 19 languages. The collection provides extensive data obtained from 270 speakers across those languages, examining VOT and other acoustic, aerodynamic and articulatory measures. The languages studied may be divided into four groups: 'aspirating' languages with a two-way contrast (English, three varieties of German); 'true voicing' languages with a two-way contrast (Russian, Turk…
Arthur S. Abramson
Arthur S. Abramson D. H. Whalen and Laura L. Koenig Arthur S. Abramson, former Secretary, Vice President, and President (1983) of the Linguistic Society of America, died on December 15, 2017, at the age of ninety-two.1 He was a central figure in the linguistic study of tone, voicing, voice quality, and duration, primarily in their phonetic realization. His seminal work with Leigh Lisker (Lisker & Abramson 1964) introduced the metric voice onset t…
In Memoriam
Arthur S. Abramson, Professor Emeritus of Linguistics and founding department chair at the University of Connecticut at Storrs, Emeritus Senior Scientist at Haskins Laboratories, and a major figure in the international phonetics community, died on 15 December, 2017 at the age of 92
Arthur S. Abramson
Variability of articulator positions and formants across nine English vowels
Voice Onset Time (VOT) at 50
Direct Perceptions of Carol Fowler's Theoretical Perspective
Carol Fowler has had a tremendous impact on the field of speech perception, in part by having people disagree with her. The disagreements arise, as they often do, from two incompatible sources: Her positions are often misunderstood and thus "disagreed" with only on the surface, and her positions are rejected because they challenge deeply held, intuitively appealing positions, without being shown to be wrong. The misunderstandings center largely o…
Perception and Production of English Vowels by American Males and Females
The aims of this study are to explore the link between the perception and production of vowel sounds and to make a minor contribution to the debate about the hyperspace effect. The sample of 18 American English speakers (male and female) identified ideal American English vowels from sets of synthetic vowels, and the same participants produced those vowels in a clear speaking style. The formant values of the produced vowels were measured and compa…
Vowel variability in elicited versus spontaneous speech
Taking the Laboratory into the Field
We review the development of methodologies and technologies of empirical linguistic work done outside traditional academic laboratories. The integration of such results with contemporary language documentation and linguistic theory is an increasingly important component of language analysis. Taking linguistic inquiry out of the lab and away from well-described and familiar data brings challenges in logistics, ethics, and the definition of variabi…
Computational simulation of CV combination preferences in babbling
Biomechanically Preferred Consonant-Vowel Combinations Fail to Appear in Adult Spoken Corpora
Certain consonant/vowel (CV) combinations are more frequent than would be expected from the individual C and V frequencies alone, both in babbling and, to a lesser extent, in adult language, based on dictionary counts: Labial consonants co-occur with central vowels more often than chance would dictate; coronals co-occur with front vowels, and velars with back vowels (Davis & MacNeilage, 1994). Plausible biomechanical explanations have been propos…
Endangered language families
Linguists have increased their documentation efforts in response to the sharp decline in the number of languages. Greater awareness and new sources of funding have led to an upsurge in language documentation. While individual languages make unique contributions to the world's linguistic heritage, language families, by virtue of their shared heritage, have related contributions to make. The endangerment of entire families, while implied by the los…
Laboratory Phonology 8
NSF Supports Endangered Language Research
The phonetics of native North American languages
VOT in the babbling of French- and English-learning infants
The universality of intrinsic F0 of vowels
Voice Onset Time (VOT) at 50
Coarticulation is largely planned
Voice onset time and beyond
we have compiled eleven studies investigating the voicing contrast in 19 languages. The collection provides extensive data obtained from 270 speakers across those languages, examining VOT and other acoustic, aerodynamic and articulatory measures. The languages studied may be divided into four groups: 'aspirating' languages with a two-way contrast (English, three varieties of German); 'true voicing' languages with a two-way contrast (Russian, Turk…
Cricothyroid activity in high and low vowels
Lexical effects in the perception and production of American English /p/ allophones
MRI evidence for commonality in the post-oral articulations of English vowels and liquids
Vowel variability in elicited versus spontaneous speech
Connections between Nasality and Vowel Duration and Height
In certain Eastern Algonquian languages a nasal vowel developed from the long low vowel /a:/, regardless of consonantal context. A series of experiments showed that longer vowels (regardless of height) were perceived as more nasalized than shorter ones, but only when some nasalization was actually present. Further experiments showed no evidence of an increase in nasalization for long vowels in oral contexts. If some nasalization was nonetheless i…
Variability of articulator positions and formants across nine English vowels
Computational simulation of CV combination preferences in babbling
Endangered language families
Linguists have increased their documentation efforts in response to the sharp decline in the number of languages. Greater awareness and new sources of funding have led to an upsurge in language documentation. While individual languages make unique contributions to the world's linguistic heritage, language families, by virtue of their shared heritage, have related contributions to make. The endangerment of entire families, while implied by the los…
VOT in the babbling of French- and English-learning infants
Phonetic structure in Yoloxóchitl Mixtec consonants
While Mixtec languages are well-known for their tonal systems, there remains relatively little work focusing on their consonant inventories. This paper provides an in-depth phonetic description of the consonant system of the Yoloxóchitl Mixtec language (Oto-Manguean, ISO 639-3 codexty), a Guerrero Mixtec variety. The language possesses a number of contrasts common among Mixtec languages, such as voiceless unaspirated stops, prenasalized stops, an…
Taking the Laboratory into the Field
We review the development of methodologies and technologies of empirical linguistic work done outside traditional academic laboratories. The integration of such results with contemporary language documentation and linguistic theory is an increasingly important component of language analysis. Taking linguistic inquiry out of the lab and away from well-described and familiar data brings challenges in logistics, ethics, and the definition of variabi…
Biomechanically Preferred Consonant-Vowel Combinations Fail to Appear in Adult Spoken Corpora
Certain consonant/vowel (CV) combinations are more frequent than would be expected from the individual C and V frequencies alone, both in babbling and, to a lesser extent, in adult language, based on dictionary counts: Labial consonants co-occur with central vowels more often than chance would dictate; coronals co-occur with front vowels, and velars with back vowels (Davis & MacNeilage, 1994). Plausible biomechanical explanations have been propos…
The syllable's rhyme affects its P-center as a unit
Vowel Production and Perception
The ability of speakers to exaggerate speech sounds (“hyperarticulation”) has led to the theory that the targets themselves must be hyperarticulated. Johnson, Flemming, and Wright (1993) found that perceptual “best exemplar” choices for vowels were more extreme than listeners' own productions. Our first experiment, using their procedure, only partially replicated their results. Low vowels showed a higher F1, consistent with hyperspace. Front vowe…
A dual mechanism for intrinsic f0
Vowel Information in Postvocalic Fricative Noises
When the postvocalic fricative noises of [s] and [f] are excerpted and combined with vocalic segments having inappropriate formant transitions, vowel quality, or both, the fricative percept is determined by the noise. However, there is often a perception of a diphthong in the vowel. This phenomenon was explored for the vowels [a, i, o, u] preceding the fricatives [s] and [∫]. In the first of two experiments, all combinations of the vocalic segmen…
Production of the English /ɹ/ by Mandarin–English Bilingual Speakers
Rhotic sounds are some of the most challenging sounds for L2 learners to acquire. This study investigates the production of English rhotic sounds by Mandarin–English bilinguals with two English proficiency levels. The production of the English /ɹ/ by 17 Mandarin–English bilinguals was examined with ultrasound imaging and compared with the production of native English speakers. The ultrasound data show that bilinguals can produce native-like bunch…
The semantics of metaphor
Vowel Information in Postvocalic Fricative Noises
When the postvocalic fricative noises of [s] and [f] are excerpted and combined with vocalic segments having inappropriate formant transitions, vowel quality, or both, the fricative percept is determined by the noise. However, there is often a perception of a diphthong in the vowel. This phenomenon was explored for the vowels [a, i, o, u] preceding the fricatives [s] and [∫]. In the first of two experiments, all combinations of the vocalic segmen…
The syllable's rhyme affects its P-center as a unit
Connections between Nasality and Vowel Duration and Height
In certain Eastern Algonquian languages a nasal vowel developed from the long low vowel /a:/, regardless of consonantal context. A series of experiments showed that longer vowels (regardless of height) were perceived as more nasalized than shorter ones, but only when some nasalization was actually present. Further experiments showed no evidence of an increase in nasalization for long vowels in oral contexts. If some nasalization was nonetheless i…
Coarticulation is largely planned
Intonational differences between the reduplicative babbling of French- and English-learning infants
The two- and three-syllable reduplicative babbling of five French-learning and five English-learning infants (0;5 to 1; 1) was examined in two ways for intonational differences. The first measure was a categorization into one of five categories (RISING, FALLING, RISE-FALL, FALL-RISE, LEVEL) by expert listeners. The second was the fundamental frequency (F 0 ) from the early, middle and late portion of each syllable. Both measures showed significan…
Perception of overlapping segments
The universality of intrinsic F0 of vowels
The Speaker, the Listener, and the Child
Hearing
Lexical effects in the perception and production of American English /p/ allophones
Cricothyroid activity in high and low vowels
MRI evidence for commonality in the post-oral articulations of English vowels and liquids
Letters to Language
Letters to Language D. H. Whalen, Harriet S. Magen, Marianne Pouplier, A. Min Kang, Khalil Iskarous, and Ch.-J. N. Bailey Language accepts letters from readers that briefly and succinctly respond to or comment upon either material published previously in the journal or issues deemed of importance to the field. The editor reserves the right to edit letters as needed. Brief replies from relevant parties are included as warranted. Vowel targets with…
Letters to Language
Letters to Language Eric P. Hamp, Keith Johnson, Edward Flemming, Richard Wright, D. H. Whalen, Harriet S. Magen, Marianne Pouplier, A. Min Kang, and Khalil Iskarous Language accepts letters from readers that briefly and succinctly respond to or comment upon either material published previously in the journal or issues deemed of importance to the field. The editor reserves the right to edit letters as needed. Brief replies from relevant parties a…
Vowel Production and Perception
The ability of speakers to exaggerate speech sounds (“hyperarticulation”) has led to the theory that the targets themselves must be hyperarticulated. Johnson, Flemming, and Wright (1993) found that perceptual “best exemplar” choices for vowels were more extreme than listeners' own productions. Our first experiment, using their procedure, only partially replicated their results. Low vowels showed a higher F1, consistent with hyperspace. Front vowe…
VOT in the babbling of French- and English-learning infants
NSF Supports Endangered Language Research
The phonetics of native North American languages
Laboratory Phonology 8
Biomechanically Preferred Consonant-Vowel Combinations Fail to Appear in Adult Spoken Corpora
Certain consonant/vowel (CV) combinations are more frequent than would be expected from the individual C and V frequencies alone, both in babbling and, to a lesser extent, in adult language, based on dictionary counts: Labial consonants co-occur with central vowels more often than chance would dictate; coronals co-occur with front vowels, and velars with back vowels (Davis & MacNeilage, 1994). Plausible biomechanical explanations have been propos…
Endangered language families
Linguists have increased their documentation efforts in response to the sharp decline in the number of languages. Greater awareness and new sources of funding have led to an upsurge in language documentation. While individual languages make unique contributions to the world's linguistic heritage, language families, by virtue of their shared heritage, have related contributions to make. The endangerment of entire families, while implied by the los…
Computational simulation of CV combination preferences in babbling
Taking the Laboratory into the Field
We review the development of methodologies and technologies of empirical linguistic work done outside traditional academic laboratories. The integration of such results with contemporary language documentation and linguistic theory is an increasingly important component of language analysis. Taking linguistic inquiry out of the lab and away from well-described and familiar data brings challenges in logistics, ethics, and the definition of variabi…
Perception and Production of English Vowels by American Males and Females
The aims of this study are to explore the link between the perception and production of vowel sounds and to make a minor contribution to the debate about the hyperspace effect. The sample of 18 American English speakers (male and female) identified ideal American English vowels from sets of synthetic vowels, and the same participants produced those vowels in a clear speaking style. The formant values of the produced vowels were measured and compa…
Phonetics and Phonology Research (33 works) · Linguistics (32 works) · Psychology (30 works) · Computer Science (28 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (20 works) · Speech recognition (19 works) · Vowel (18 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Speech Recognition and Synthesis (15 works) · Mathematics (14 works)