Jacewicz Ewa, Fox Robert A, Salmons Joseph
Ohio State University.
Am Speech. 2007;82(4):367-385. doi: 10.1215/00031283-2007-024.
The article reports on an acoustic investigation into the duration of five American English vowels, those found in hid, head, had, hayed, and hide. We compare duration across three major dialect areas: the Inland North, Midlands, and South. The results show systematic differences across all vowels studied, with the longest durations in the South and the shortest in the Inland North, with the Midlands in an intermediate but distinct position. More generally, the sample differs from and complements other work on this question by including detailed evidence from relatively small, cohesive areas, each within a different established dialect region.
本文报道了一项关于五个美式英语元音时长的声学研究，这些元音分别出现在hid、head、had、hayed和hide中。我们比较了三个主要方言区的元音时长：内陆北方、中部地区和南方。结果显示，在所有研究的元音中存在系统性差异，南方的元音时长最长，内陆北方最短，中部地区处于中间但独特的位置。更普遍地说，该样本与关于这个问题的其他研究不同且互为补充，因为它包含了来自相对较小、具有凝聚力的地区的详细证据，每个地区都在一个不同的既定方言区域内。
