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ACOUSTIC CONSIDERATION OF TENSENESS IN SOME FRENCH AND ENGLISH VOWELS

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1972
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This thesis investigates articulatory tenseness in French and English oral vowels. Chapter I reviews notions of tenseness, Chapter II presents experimental procedure, Chapter III contains results and conclusions. Tense vowels within a language demonstrate greater formant frequency deviation from a neutral vowel position than lax vowels. The deviations of the French nuclei [...] and the English nuclei [...] are compared using spectrograms made from recordings of Standard French and American English speakers. Measurement is based on the difference in Hertz of the first three formant frequencies of each vowel and the corresponding frequencies of the neutral vowel position of that language. The French nuclei [...] exhibit greater deviation than the English nuclei [...] from their respective neutral vowel positions and are said to be comparatively more tense. The same measurement and criteria show that the English nuclei [...] are comparatively more tense than their French counterparts.
Title: AN ACOUSTIC CONSIDERATION OF TENSENESS IN SOME FRENCH AND ENGLISH VOWELS.
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Name(s): SWIFT, PATRICIA WORRELL
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Resnick, Melvyn C., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1972
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 47 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: This thesis investigates articulatory tenseness in French and English oral vowels. Chapter I reviews notions of tenseness, Chapter II presents experimental procedure, Chapter III contains results and conclusions. Tense vowels within a language demonstrate greater formant frequency deviation from a neutral vowel position than lax vowels. The deviations of the French nuclei [...] and the English nuclei [...] are compared using spectrograms made from recordings of Standard French and American English speakers. Measurement is based on the difference in Hertz of the first three formant frequencies of each vowel and the corresponding frequencies of the neutral vowel position of that language. The French nuclei [...] exhibit greater deviation than the English nuclei [...] from their respective neutral vowel positions and are said to be comparatively more tense. The same measurement and criteria show that the English nuclei [...] are comparatively more tense than their French counterparts.
Identifier: 13536 (digitool), FADT13536 (IID), fau:10380 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1972.
Subject(s): French language--Vowels
English language--Vowels
French language--Phonetics
English language--Phonetics
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