Phonetic analysis of my vowels

Vowel analysis

The resonance frequencies of the vocal tract tend to emphasize a series of frequencies that relate to the vocal tract size and shape. However, these frequencies are not sequential in their strength as the vocal tract is not a simple tube but rather a tube of varying sizes and shapes. Sounds classified as vowels are characterized by peaks of energy around the resonance frequencies of the vocal tract. These frequencies are commonly referred to as formants. Each vowel's physical realization has it own unique frequencies at the first and second formant, F1 and F2.

My stressed and unstressed vowels were recorded using WaveSurfer within the carrier sentence "jag sa testordet igen" (I said testword again). The words were example words for Swedish long and short vowels from SAMPA. The example words were cut out from the carrier sentence and the vowels were automatically extracted using an application for formant extraction based on SNACK [reference].F1 and F2 for the vowels are mean frequencies of the sound which was automatically classified by the system as being the vowel.

Unstressed vowels

Formant plot + table
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Stressed vowels

Formant plot + table
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A combination of both stressed and unstressed vowels

Formant plot
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F1 seam to have a large spam for some of my vowels depending on stress (for example E, Ä and A:). It would be interesting to study this irregularity based on more sound examples.

Anna's consonants

Plosives

Examples of "appa" and "atta".
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The full stop in these plosives are clearly visable in these spectograms.

Fricatives

Examples of "affa" and "assa".
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Nasals

Examples of "amma" and "arra".
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'K' in the context of different vowels

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