LAB 6: Formant Frequency Calculations from Area Function Data

The main purpose of this laboratory is to investigate the quantal theory of speech articulation.

Here are the resources you will need:

Lab 6 handout (PDF)

Utterances

• none

The Tools

• MATLAB (UNIX®)
• vtcalcs - MATLAB® scripts

The tool vtcalcs is available in the vtcalcs_2002 subdirectory of the labc account. If you do not have access to the labc account, you can download the scripts from the Lab Software page.

Reference Readings

Stevens, K. N. "The quantal nature of speech: Evidence from Articulatory-Acoustic data." In Human Communication: A Unified View. Edited by E. E. David, and P. B. Denes. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1972, pp. 51-66.

Stevens, K. N. "On the quantal nature of speech." J of Phonetics 17 (1989): 3-45.

Stevens, K. N. Acoustic Phonetics. 1998, pp. 136-152.