Acoustics of
the Vowel
Preliminaries
the Vowel
Preliminaries
Materials Part III - Lack of Correspondence between Patterns of Relative Spectral Energy Maxima or Formant Patterns and Age- and Gender-Related
Speaker Groups or Vocal-Tract Sizes
M10.2: The Dichotomy of the Vowel Spectrum
In Chapter 10.1, we have argued that the spectrum of a vowel sound needs a twofold rather than a uniform consideration, because only the vowel-related spectrum ≤ 1.5 kHz clearly depends on F0 and, therefore, is not generally specific to speaker groups and vocal-tract sizes. Figures 7 to 10 in the previous chapter illustrate this dichotomy of the vowel spectrum.