Untersuchungen zur spezifischen Dauer deutscher Vokale

Abstract

Abstract This paper examines the effects of vowel quality (formant frequencies), speaker and place of articulation of the surrounding consonants (/p/, /t/ or /k/) upon the duration of German vowels embedded in a fixed carrier sentence. The results obtained verify and complement known data from other investigations and make it possible to specify formulae, which can be used both in prosodic analysis and in automatic speech synthesis.