Individual differences between vowel systems of German speakers
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Based on formant measurements of more than 10000 vowels from 16 German speakers, vowel quality di erences between the speakers have been analyzed. The main result of this investigation is that di erent speakers show not only di erent formant values (as one would expect due to individual di erences), but exhibit di erent arrangements in their vowel systems. These di erences are demonstrated by examples from the general distribution of vowels, the structure of vowel prototypes, and the differing number of degrees of tongue height for di erent speakers. The problem of vowel normalization for that data will also be demonstrated and discussed.
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