Abstract
Abstract
The main purpose of this paper is to show that the observation which is the starting point for almost all attempts at explaining intrinsic fundamental frequency (intrinsic F₀) in vowels, i.e. that it is correlated with vowel height (interpreted as tongue height), does not hold if short lax vowels are included, since they have a considerably lower tongue height but practically the same F₀ as their corresponding tense counterparts. Section 1 contains a discussion of some explanations of intrinsic F₀ and vowel height and a short exposition of its connection with other vowel features. Section 2 gives a survey of the properties of tense and lax vowels based on data from the phonetic literature. Section 3 reports on an investigation of German tense and lax front unrounded vowels, including duration, tongue height, jaw opening, vertical lip opening, formant frequencies, and F₀. Section 4 contains a discussion of various possible explanations of the results.
Subject
Linguistics and Language,Acoustics and Ultrasonics,Language and Linguistics
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