The article reports on an acoustic investigation into the duration of five American English
vowels, those found in hid, head, had, hayed, and hide. We compare duration across three …

This is a summary report of the vowel duration data that have been accumulated over the
past several years. The data corpus analyzed to derive temporal controls of vowels consists …

An overview is given of the durational characteristics of vowel sounds in the readings of
three slow and three fast talkers. The effects on duration of tempo, syllabic stress and a …

Average durations of 12 vowels of American English measured in bisyllabic nonsense
utterances are reported. The vowels occurred in 14 symmetrical consonantal environments …

centers of the GA area: R was born in Brooklyn, NY, resided there until the age of sixteen,
and spent four years each at Union College, Schenectady, NY, and Harvard University …

The influence of a following consonant on the duration of a tonic vowel in English raises
serious linguistic implications. The present paper attempted to study the problem cross …

The goal of the current study was to explore the temporal organization of six regional
dialects of American English to gain a better understanding of the perceptual impressions of …

In a recent article PTBBKE DELATTBE1 has given a survey of the factors which have been
found to influence vowel duration2. He mentions six factors which he supposes to be …

Previous research by speech scientists on the acoustic characteristics of American English
vowel systems has typically focused on a single regional variety, despite decades of …

The vowels of English (standard British and American dialects) fall into two sets: those that
are short and lax, and those that are long and tense. Chomsky and Halle (1968; henceforth …