The Sounds of English : Chapter 28

pp. 247-248

Formants and Vowel Quality - limitations

List five limitations for use of formants for representing vowel quality.

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What can influence the location of formants?

 

Why do spurious formants occur?

 

How do female formants differ from male formants? Why?

 

"Long" vowels are usually longer than "short" vowels. What else does the duration of a vowel depend on?