31.3540, Books: On Formants: McGowan

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Subject: 31.3540, Books: On Formants: McGowan

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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 21:47:19
From: Richard McGowan [mcgowan.richard.s at gmail.com]
Subject: On Formants: McGowan

 


Title: On Formants 
Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: CReSS Books
	   http://cressbooks.com
	

Book URL: http://cressbooks.com 


Author: Richard S. McGowan

Paperback: ISBN:  9780999757420 Pages: 160 Price: ----  34


Abstract:

This book is about the relationships between vocal tract shape and formants.
It is intended to inform and build intuition for phoneticians regarding these
relationships. One result is that axially short constrictions can only raise
formant frequencies slightly, and are more likely to lower them. More global
changes to vocal tract shape from its neutral shape are required to raise
formant frequencies substantially. Also, constriction length is an important
factor for formants. We introduce the concept of spatial phase to help in
understanding how formants change with changes in vocal tract shape. Finally
we derive area function vowel spaces for eight monophthong vowels of American
English. This is a step toward an articulatory phonetics for vowels. This book
is “foundational”—Louis Goldstein, USC.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Phonetics


Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=149153




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