Effects of consonant environment on vowel formant patterns.

@article{Hillenbrand2001EffectsOC,
  title={Effects of consonant environment on vowel formant patterns.},
  author={James M. Hillenbrand and Michael J. Clark and Terrance M. Nearey},
  journal={The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America},
  year={2001},
  volume={109 2},
  pages={
          748-63
        }
}
A significant body of evidence has accumulated indicating that vowel identification is influenced by spectral change patterns. For example, a large-scale study of vowel formant patterns showed substantial improvements in category separability when a pattern classifier was trained on multiple samples of the formant pattern rather than a single sample at steady state [J. Hillenbrand et al., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 97, 3099-3111 (1995)]. However, in the earlier study all utterances were recorded in a… 
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