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Fry: acoustic cues for consonants. Fry: acoustic cues for consonants. Fry p 135. Remind yourself of the fortis-lenis distinction in the slide for week 6 – as far as English is concerned, keep particularly in mind the eight fortis-lenis pairs (Fry says nine, which puzzles me...
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Fry: acoustic cues for consonants Fry p 135 Remind yourself of the fortis-lenis distinction in the slide for week 6 – as far as English is concerned, keep particularly in mind the eight fortis-lenis pairs (Fry says nine, which puzzles me... -- see next slide→
AFFRICATES FRICATIVES PLOSIVES fortis lenis What is the situation for your language?
ph p b Icelandic pæ bæ French peau beau English pie buy
no voicing voicing release lip closure penni pin labour, grabber spin spenna, benni ábót, labba bin super, supper rabb, rop rub top topp VOT
Fry: acoustic cues for consonants • Medially, English lenis plosives are fully voiced. • Initially or finally, they may be only partially voiced (plosives may be fully or almost fully unvoiced). In these cases other cues help identity:
Fry: acoustic cues for consonants p 137 • plosives: • fricatives: The cue for fricatives • nasals: • laterals and semi-vowels:
p 138 • 14 sythesized patterns • No change in the F1 • Transitions in the F2
Reverse for final consonants • Rising and falling / minus and plus • minus: bilabial • zero: alveolar • plus: velar
p.140 pa ba ta da ka ga: in Week 8 NB spectrum settings in Praat