Vowel Inherent Spectral Change
Assmann, Peter F. / Morrison, Geoffrey Stewart![Vowel Inherent Spectral Change](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/175/17524068/CHSBZCOP0317524068.jpg)
It has been traditional in phonetic research to characterize monophthongs using a set of static formant frequencies, i.e., formant frequencies taken from a single time-point in the vowel or averaged over the time-course of the vowel. However, over the last twenty years a growing body of research has demonstrated that, at least for a number of dialects of North American English, vowels which are traditionally described as monophthongs often hav...