Vowel-Length in General American Speech

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ID2867847
AuthorsHarry A Rositzke, Harry Rositzke (corresponding author)
Year1939
Volume15
Issue2
Pages99
Publication date1939-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/408728
OpenAlexW2326611317
LanguageEN
Citations received4

Previous experimental investigations of English vowel-length have been confined principally to the Received Standard dialect of British English. Though over thirty years old, Meyer's pioneering work on the lexical duration of vowels in the speech of a Londoner and an Oxfordshire man continues to be the only extensive collection of data on English vowel-duration. A start has been made, however, in the experimental measurement of American sound-length in two recent studies of quite different nature. In the first the durations of sounds in a Middle Westerner's reading of a short piece of narrative prose were obtained from oscillographic recordings, and gross averages were computed for vowel and consonant durations. The second measured lexical durations in 131 monosyllables with a final dental stop from the writer's own pronunciation, and set up several conclusions concerning American ‘quantity’ based on the relative values of the durations

Audiology · Formant · Linguistics · Mid vowel · Speech recognition · Vowel · Vowel length · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Medicine · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Psychology

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