Fry acoustic cues for consonants

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Fry: acoustic cues for consonants Fry p 135 Remind yourself of the fortis-lenis distinction in the slide for week 6 – as far as English is concerned, keep particularly in mind the eight fortis-lenis pairs (Fry says nine, which puzzles me. . . -- see next slide→

ES IV S LO P fortis lenis What is the situation for your language? A IC FR TI ES V ES T FR AF CA I

ph Icelandic pæ French English p bæ peau pie b beau buy

VOT lip closure no voicing release labour, grabber ábót, labba super, supper penni spenna, benni pin spin bin rabb, rop rub topp

Tihomir, BA essay

Fry: acoustic cues for consonants • Medially, English lenis plosives are fully voiced. • Initially or finally, they may be only partially voiced (plosives may be fully or almost fully unvoiced). In these cases other cues help identity:

Fry: acoustic cues for consonants p 137 • plosives: • fricatives: • nasals: The cue for fricatives • laterals and semi-vowels:

p 138 • 14 sythesized patterns • No change in the F 1 • Transitions in the F 2

bilabial – alveolar – velar: “bay day gay” b d d g

• Reverse for final consonants • Rising and falling / minus and plus • minus: bilabial • zero: alveolar • plus: velar

p. 140 pa ba ta da ka ga: in Week 8 NB spectrum settings in Praat