1978/07/01 by N. Umeda · 1 citation
Psychology · #Phonetics and Phonology Research #Fluent #Acoustics #Computer science #Speech recognition #Physics #Simulation #Computer simulation
paper · doi:10.1121/1.381959
openalex publication_date 1978/07/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
The use of glottal stops in continuous speech in American English has not been well studied, in spite of the common belief that they may serve as boundary markers. This paper reports the result from measurements of five speakers' readings of four stories, each arranged in both list and story form. Data were analyzed according to the difference in speakers, materials, versions, phonological situations (phoneme sequence and stress situations), grammatical conditions, and frequency of occurrence of words. Results show that higher-level factors such as speaker's reading style and difficulty of material have a strong influence than phonological and grammatical factors.