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Spectral and temporal measures of coarticulation in child speech

Author(s) -

Margaret Cychosz,

Jan Edwards,

Benjamin Munson,

Keith Johnson

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

the journal of the acoustical society of america

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.619

H-Index - 187

eISSN - 1520-8524

pISSN - 0001-4966

DOI - 10.1121/1.5139201

Subject(s) - coarticulation , vowel , vocal tract , consonant , replicate , speech recognition , computer science , psychology , audiology , mathematics , statistics , medicine

Speech produced by children is characterized by a high fundamental frequency which complicates measurement of vocal tract resonances, and hence coarticulation. Here two whole-spectrum measures of coarticulation are validated, one temporal and one spectral, that are less sensitive to these challenges. Using these measures, consonant-vowel coarticulation is calculated in the speech of a large sample of 4-year-old children. The measurements replicate known lingual coarticulatory findings from the literature, demonstrating the utility of these acoustic measures of coarticulation in speakers of all ages.

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