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Context-specific acoustic differences between Peruvian and Iberian Spanish vowels.
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Journal of the Acoustical Society of America . Jul2011, Vol. 130 Issue 1, p416-428. 13p. - Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- This paper examines four acoustic properties (duration F0, F1, and F2) of the monophthongal vowels of Iberian Spanish (IS) from Madrid and Peruvian Spanish (PS) from Lima in various consonantal contexts (/s/, /f/, /t/, /p/, and /k/) and in various phrasal contexts (in isolated words and sentence-internally). Acoustic measurements on 39 speakers, balanced by dialect and gender, can be generalized to the following differences between the two dialects. The vowel /a/ has a lower first formant in PS than in IS by 6.3%. The vowels /e/ and /o/ have more peripheral second-formant (F2) values in PS than in IS by about 4%. The consonant /s/ causes more centralization of the F2 of neighboring vowels in IS than in PS. No dialectal differences are found for the effect of phrasal context. Next to the between-dialect differences in the vowels, the present study finds that /s/ has a higher spectral center of gravity in PS than in IS by about 10%, that PS speakers speak slower than IS speakers by about 9%, and that Spanish-speaking women speak slower than Spanish-speaking men by about 5% (irrespective of dialect). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00014966
- Volume :
- 130
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 62962025
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3592242