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Production of Short and Long Finnish ­Vowels with and without Noise Masking

Osmo Eerola, Janne Savela, Production of Short and Long Finnish ­Vowels with and without Noise Masking . Linguistica Uralica 48, 200–208, 2012.

Abstract:

In order to further examine the possible quality differences between produced short and long Finnish vowels, we studied the formant frequencies F1–F4 and duration of the eight Finnish vowels /a/, /e/, /i/, /o/, /u/, /y/, /æ/ and /ø/ when uttered in carrier words (e.g., /tili/ — /tiili/) in two different masking conditions and without a noise mask. Babble noise at 92dB SPL was used to simulate a loud, crowded cocktail party, and pink noise at 83dB SPL an environment with the ­maximum noise level allowed for continuous working. Minor quality differences were found between the short and long vowels. Noise masking caused a significant prolongation of produced short vowels, and a significant increase in the F1 frequency.

BibTeX entry:

@ARTICLE{jEeSa12a,
  title = {Production of Short and Long Finnish ­Vowels with and without Noise Masking },
  author = {Eerola, Osmo and Savela, Janne},
  journal = {Linguistica Uralica},
  volume = {48},
  pages = {200–208},
  year = {2012},
}

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