17.1865, Qs: The Alphabet and Sounds of USA English; Voice Onset Time

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Subject: 17.1865, Qs: The Alphabet and Sounds of USA English; Voice Onset Time

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1)
Date: 17-Jun-2006
From: Tom Zurinskas < tzurinskas at yahoo.com >
Subject: The Alphabet and Sounds of USA English 

2)
Date: 17-Jun-2006
From: Alan Huffman < ahuffman at citytech.cuny.edu >
Subject: Voice Onset Time 

	
-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:28:35
From: Tom Zurinskas < tzurinskas at yahoo.com >
Subject: The Alphabet and Sounds of USA English 
 


I have written a book ''The Alphabet and Sounds of USA English - Truespel 
Book 4'' which counts the letters and phonemes as used in general media 
(newspapers).  It found that the  letter ''e'' is used most, and letter ''z'' least, 
while the sound ''n'' ~n is used most and the sound ~zh as in ''vision'' 
~vizhin is used least.  The database is huge and represents about 90% of 
the words on a page, so the results are definitive.  A sound-spelling table 
shows the top six ways each phoneme is spelled.  I wonder if there are 
comparison data I could peruse.

Thanks, Tom Z 

Linguistic Field(s): Text/Corpus Linguistics


	
-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:28:37
From: Alan Huffman < ahuffman at citytech.cuny.edu >
Subject: Voice Onset Time 

	

Can anyone give me references from the acoustic-phonetic literature on the
question of Voice Onset Time of fricatives versus VOT of aspirated stops? 
Thank you. 

Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics
 



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