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  • Title: Articulatory dynamics of loud and normal speech.
    Author: Schulman R.
    Journal: J Acoust Soc Am; 1989 Jan; 85(1):295-312. PubMed ID: 2921412.
    Abstract:
    A comparison was made between normal and loud productions of bilabial stops and stressed vowels. Simultaneous recordings of lip and jaw movement and the accompanying audio signal were made for four native speakers of Swedish. The stimuli consisted of 12 Swedish vowels appearing in an /i'b_b/ frame and were produced with both normal and increased vocal effort. The displacement, velocity, and relative timing associated with the individual articulators as well as their coarticulatory interactions were studied together with changes in acoustic segmental duration. It is shown that the production of loud as compared with normal speech is characterized by amplification of normal movement patterns that are predictable for the above articulatory parameters. In addition, it was observed that the acoustic durations of bilabial stops were shortened, whereas stressed vowels were lengthened during loud speech production. Two interpretations of the data are offered, viewing loud articulatory behavior as a response to production demands and perceptual constraints, respectively.
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