Date of Award
1972
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Resnick, Melvyn C.
Abstract
This thesis investigates articulatory tenseness in French and English oral vowels. Chapter I reviews notions of tenseness, Chapter II presents experimental procedure, Chapter III contains results and conclusions. Tense vowels within a language demonstrate greater formant frequency deviation from a neutral vowel position than lax vowels. The deviations of the French nuclei [...] and the English nuclei [...] are compared using spectrograms made from recordings of Standard French and American English speakers. Measurement is based on the difference in Hertz of the first three formant frequencies of each vowel and the corresponding frequencies of the neutral vowel position of that language. The French nuclei [...] exhibit greater deviation than the English nuclei [...] from their respective neutral vowel positions and are said to be comparatively more tense. The same measurement and criteria show that the English nuclei [...] are comparatively more tense than their French counterparts.
Extent
47 p.
Recommended Citation
SWIFT, PATRICIA WORRELL, "ACOUSTIC CONSIDERATION OF TENSENESS IN SOME FRENCH AND ENGLISH VOWELS" (1972). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 1970 - 1979. 89.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_2/89
Identifier
FADT13536
Comments
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1972.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters