9.1346, Sum: Sibilant Acoustics

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Subject: 9.1346, Sum: Sibilant Acoustics

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Date:  Mon, 28 Sep 1998 11:44:26 -0500 (CDT)
From:  Jack Wiedrick <jackw at ruf.rice.edu>
Subject:  Summary of Sibilant Acoustics

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Date:  Mon, 28 Sep 1998 11:44:26 -0500 (CDT)
From:  Jack Wiedrick <jackw at ruf.rice.edu>
Subject:  Summary of Sibilant Acoustics

I want to thank all of those who responded to my (somewhat naive)
question, and supplied me with their valuable time and knowledge.

The question basically amounts to: How are sibilants different from each
other, and how do we know?  Apparently, this is an question of ongoing
concern.

References:
Bladon, A., and P.F. Seitz. 1986. "Spectral edge orientation as a
	discriminator of fricatives." Journal of the Acoustic Society of America
	(JASA), 80:S18-19.
Forrest, K., Weismar, G., Milenkovic, P., and R. Dougall. 1988.
	"Statistical analysis of word-initial voiceless obstruents: Preliminary
	data." JASA, 84:115-23.
Kent, R., and C. Read. 1992. _The Acoustic Analysis of Speech_. Singular
	Publishing Group, San Diego.
Nguyen, N., Hoole, P., and A. Marchal. 1994. "Regenerating the spectral
	shapes of [s] and [S] from a limited set of articulatory parameters."
	JASA, 96(1):33-9.
Seitz, F., Bladon, A., and I. Watson. 1988.  "Frequency domain
	characteristics and classification of physically and perceptually scaled
	British English sibilant consonants." Progress Reports from Oxford
	Phonetics, 3:36-73.
Stevens, K. 1971. "Airflow and turbulence noise for fricative and stop
	consonants: Static considerations." JASA, 50:1180-92.
Strevens, P. 1960. "Spectra of fricative noise in human speech." Language
	and Speech, 3:32-49.
Whalen, D.H. 1991. "Perception of the English /s/-/S/ distinction relies
	on fricative noises and transitions, not on brief spectral slices."
	JASA, 90(4):1776-85.

Contacts:
Alice Faber, Haskins Laboratories
	(http://www.haskins.yale.edu/haskins/staff/staff.html)
Allard Jongman, Cornell University and Max Planck Institute for
	Psycholinguistics
Rochelle Newman, University of Iowa Department of Psychology
P. Franz Seitz, Army Audiology and Speech Center @ Walter Reed AMC

Thanks very much to all.

Jack Wiedrick
Rice University

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