The aim of this paper is to study the effect of the number of vowels a language has on the size of its vocalic space, in the production of speech from two Arabic dialects, Moroccan and Jordanian Arabic, and from French. 5 speakers per language (or dialect) recorded a list of vowels in 3 conditions: vowels were embedded in 1) Words, 2) Syllables, and 3) produced in Isolation. For each condition, there were 3 consonantal contexts: /b d k/. Our results corroborate the hypothesis that vowel inventory size affects the size of the acoustic vowel spaces: the larger the vowel inventory, the bigger the acoustic vowel space.
Cite as: Al-Tamimi, J.-E., Ferragne, E. (2005) Does vowel space size depend on language vowel inventories? evidence from two Arabic dialects and French. Proc. Interspeech 2005, 2465-2468, doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2005-756
@inproceedings{altamimi05_interspeech,
author={Jalal-Eddin Al-Tamimi and Emmanuel Ferragne},
title={{Does vowel space size depend on language vowel inventories? evidence from two Arabic dialects and French}},
year=2005,
booktitle={Proc. Interspeech 2005},
pages={2465--2468},
doi={10.21437/Interspeech.2005-756}
}