Acoustic articulatory evidence for quantal vowel categories : the features [low] and [back]

[摘要] (cont.)The transition to the expected relations appeared to occur by the age of 3 years for most of these children, in a developmental pattern that was inconsistent with an account in terms of simple anatomical increase. These three sets of observations provide evidence that subglottal resonances play a role in defining vowel feature boundaries, as predicted by Stevens;; (1972) hypothesis that contrastive phonological features in human languages have arisen from quantal discontinuities in articulatory-acoustic space.

[发布机构] Massachusetts Institute of Technology