Acoustics of Whispered Boundary Tones: Effects of Vowel Type and Tonal Crowding
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The acoustic realization of boundary tones in whispered speech was investigated. This was done in four different vowels, and in two structures: with or without lexical stress and boundary tone coinciding. The analyses showed a number of cues, both secondary and compensatory ones, that were not fully comparable across vowel contexts, and more clearly present without tonal crowding.
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