TY - JOUR
T1 - Effect of vowel environment on fricative consonant duration in speech produced during simultaneous communication
AU - Whitehead, Robert L.
AU - Whitehead, Brenda H.
AU - Schiavetti, Nicholas
AU - Metz, Dale Evan
AU - Farinella, Kimberly
N1 - Funding Information:
A portion of this research was conducted at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf in the course of an agreement between the Rochester Institute of Technology and the United States Department of Education. Part of this research was supported by funds from the Geneseo Foundation provided through the Research Council.
PY - 1999/11
Y1 - 1999/11
N2 - This study investigated the effect of vowel environment on fricative consonant duration in contextual speech produced during simultaneous communication (SC). Previous studies (Schwartz, 1969) of vowel influences on consonant duration supported the notion of anticipatory scanning, in which final vowel targets influence the duration of preceding fricative consonants. Ten normal-hearing, experienced sign language users recorded palatal and alveolar fricatives produced in four vowel environments in contextual sentences under SC and speech-only (SO) conditions. Results indicated longer sentence durations for SC than for SO, and significant effects of vowel context on fricative consonant duration in contextual speech in both SC and SO conditions that revealed similar anticipatory scanning effects as seen in previous studies. These data confirm previous research indicating that the temporal alterations produced by simultaneous communication do not involve violations of the temporal rules of English speech. Copyright (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Inc.
AB - This study investigated the effect of vowel environment on fricative consonant duration in contextual speech produced during simultaneous communication (SC). Previous studies (Schwartz, 1969) of vowel influences on consonant duration supported the notion of anticipatory scanning, in which final vowel targets influence the duration of preceding fricative consonants. Ten normal-hearing, experienced sign language users recorded palatal and alveolar fricatives produced in four vowel environments in contextual sentences under SC and speech-only (SO) conditions. Results indicated longer sentence durations for SC than for SO, and significant effects of vowel context on fricative consonant duration in contextual speech in both SC and SO conditions that revealed similar anticipatory scanning effects as seen in previous studies. These data confirm previous research indicating that the temporal alterations produced by simultaneous communication do not involve violations of the temporal rules of English speech. Copyright (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Inc.
KW - Anticipatory scanning
KW - Fricatives
KW - Simultaneous communication
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U2 - 10.1016/S0021-9924(99)00019-2
DO - 10.1016/S0021-9924(99)00019-2
M3 - Article
C2 - 10560715
AN - SCOPUS:0032872054
VL - 32
SP - 423
EP - 434
JO - Clinics in communication disorders
JF - Clinics in communication disorders
SN - 0021-9924
IS - 6
ER -