Perturbed palatal shape and North American English /r/ production
Perturbed palatal shape and North American English /r/ production
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腭形紊乱和北美英语 /r/ 的产生
DOI:
10.1121/1.4788555
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发表时间:
2005
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
S. Boyce
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作者:
M. Tiede;V. Gracco;D. Shiller;C. Espy;S. Boyce
It is well established that the lowered F3 associated with the acoustic percept of American English /r/ can be achieved with different tongue shapes in production. Broadly speaking these shapes may be grouped into ‘‘bunched’’ and ‘‘retroflex’’ varieties. In this work the effects of somatosensory perturbation on /r/ production are examined. Subjects were fitted with a custom palatal prosthesis incorporating a 0.5 cm protrusion along the alveolar ridge, and tongue position during production of /r/ in vocalic contexts was observed using EMA under four conditions: before prosthesis placement; while wearing the prosthesis immediately following placement; still wearing the prosthesis following an unrecorded 20 min adaptation period; and immediately after prosthesis removal. Acoustic effects of the perturbation were minimal, especially after adaptation; production effects were most pronounced in the low vowel context. One subject showed an unperturbed preference for a retroflex configuration, but increased the d...