VOWEL TARGETS AND CONSONANT LOCI FROM SCALING PROPERTIES OF FORMANT TRANSITIONS

David J. Broad1 & Frantz Clermont2
12638 State St., Unit 12, Santa Barbara CA 93105, USA; 2JPFrench Forensic Speech & Acoustics Lab., York

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From the assumptions that vowel-to-consonant formant transitions in any given VC context are (1) similar in shape and (2) scaled in proportion to the difference between the vowel target and consonant locus, we show that the implied set of scaling relationships leads to a method for estimating the loci and targets from formant data.

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