Vowel Inherent Spectral Change

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Morrison, Geoffrey Stewart (Editor), Assmann, Peter F. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computational linguistics.; Biometrics (Biology).; Phonology.; Acoustics.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Biometrics.; Language Translation and Linguistics.

It has been traditional in phonetic research to characterize monophthongs using a set of static formant frequencies, i.e., formant frequencies taken from a single time-point in the vowel or averaged over the time-course of the vowel. However, over the last twenty years a growing body of research has...