Proceedings of the KSPS conference (대한음성학회:학술대회논문집)
- 1996.10a
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- Pages.521-528
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- 1996
The identification of /I/ in Spanish and French
- Jorge A. Gurlekian (Laboratorio de Investigaciones Sensoriales CONICET.) ;
- Benoit Jacques (Universite du Quebec a Montreal) ;
- Miguelina Guirao (Laboratorio de Investigaciones Sensoriales CONICET.)
- Published : 1996.10.01
Abstract
This presentation explores on the perceptual characteristics of the lateral sound /l/ in CV syllables. At initial position we found that /l/ has well marked formant transitions. Then several questions arise: 1) are these formant structures dependent on the following vowel\ulcorner. 2) Are the formant transitions giving an additional cue for the identification\ulcorner Considering that the French vocalic system presents a greater variety of vowels than Spanish, several experiments were designed to verify to what extent a more extensive range of vocalic timbres contribute to the perception of /l/. Natural emissions of /l/ produced in Argentine Spanish and Canadian French CV syllables were recorded, where V was successively /i, e, a, o, u/ for Spanish and /i, e,
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