IMPACT OF DURATION AND VOWEL INVENTORY SIZE ON
FORMANT VALUES OF ORAL VOWELS: AN AUTOMATED
FORMANT ANALYSIS FROM EIGHT LANGUAGES.

Cédric Gendrot (1) , Martine Adda-Decker (2)

1 LPP - LPP - Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie - UMR 7018
2 LIMSI - Laboratoire d'Informatique pour la Mécanique et les Sciences de l'Ingénieur

Eight languages (Arabic, English, French, German,
Italian, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, Spanish)
with 6 differently sized vowel inventories were
analysed in terms of vowel formants. A tendency
to phonetic reduction for vowels of short acoustic
durations clearly emerges for all languages. The
data did not provide evidence for an effect of
inventory size on the global acoustic space and
only the acoustic stability of quantal vowel /i/ is
greater than that of other vowels in many cases.
Keywords: vowel formants, adaptive dispersion,
reduction, quantal theory.

Mots clés: DURATION; VOWEL INVENTORY SIZE; FORMANT; VOWELS; french; german; english; chinese; italian; arabic; portuguese; spanish

Domaines: Linguistique

Cédric Gendrot, Martine Adda-Decker. IMPACT OF DURATION AND VOWEL INVENTORY SIZE ON
FORMANT VALUES OF ORAL VOWELS: AN AUTOMATED
FORMANT ANALYSIS FROM EIGHT LANGUAGES.. International Conference on Phonetics Sciences, Aug 2007, Saarbrücken, Germany. pp.1417-1420. ⟨halshs-00188113⟩