Subject: Re: A question on area function of vocal tract From: Heriberto Avelino <avelino@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:02:12 -0700This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------020304060907030805060808 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Xinhui, You might be interested in the seminal work by Fant and Stevens Fant, G. (1960). Acoustic theory of speech production. The Hague, Netherlands: Mouton, 2nd edition. 1970, (Translated into Russian, Nauka, Moskva, 1964). Fant, G. (1973). Speech Sounds and Features. The MIT Press. Cambridge, MA, USA, (contains a selected number of articles). Fant, G, Fintoft, K., Liljencrants, J., Lindblom, B. and Martony, J. (1963). Formant-amplitude measurements. J. Acoust. Soc. Amer 35, 1753-1761. Fant, G. (1980). The relation between area functions and the acoustical signal. Phonetica 37, 55-86. Fant, G. (1997). Acoustical Analysis of Speech In (ed.) M.J. Crocker, Encyclopedia of Acoustics, John Wiley, Vol.4, 1589-1597. Fant, G. (2005). Speech Acoustics and Phonetics., Spring Stevens, Kenneth N. (1998) Acoustic Phonetics. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA Best wishes, Heriberto xinhui zhou wrote: > Dear List, > > I am having a question about area function of vocal tract, > > Area function is used to describe the vocal tract shape. It is > assumed that the bent shape of vocal tract can be regarded as a > straight tube with varying area along the axis,and only planar wave > propagation exists with limitation to certain frequency range. > > I only undertand it intuitively . Is there any book or paper which > formuates the idea of area function , i.e. why a bent 3D shape can be > simplied as a tube with area function? > > Thanks in adavance, > > Xinhui > > -- ******************************************************* 'Life is short but wide' Heriberto Avelino Department of Linguistics 1203 Dwinelle Hall, University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-2650 Phone: (510) 642-2757 Fax: (510) 643-5688 http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/~avelino/ ******************************************************* --------------020304060907030805060808 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Dear Xinhui,<br> <br> You might be interested in the seminal work by Fant and Stevens<br> <p><span class="SpellE"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">Fant</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">, G.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;"> (1960). Acoustic theory of speech production. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">The Hague</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Netherlands</st1:country-region></st1:place>: Mouton, 2nd edition. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;" lang="SV">1970, (<span class="SpellE">Translated</span> <span class="SpellE">into</span> <span class="SpellE">Russian</span>, <span class="SpellE">Nauka</span>, Moskva, 1964).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span class="SpellE"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">Fant</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">, G.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;"> (1973). Speech Sounds and Features. The MIT Press. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Cambridge</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">MA</st1:state>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place>, (contains a selected number of articles).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span class="SpellE"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">Fant</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">, G, <span class="SpellE">Fintoft</span>, K., <span class="SpellE">Liljencrants</span>, J., <span class="SpellE">Lindblom</span>, B. and <span class="SpellE">Martony</span>, J.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;"> (1963). Formant-amplitude measurements. J. <span class="SpellE">Acoust</span>. Soc. <span class="SpellE">Amer</span> 35, 1753-1761.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span class="SpellE"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">Fant</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">, G.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;"> (1980). The relation between area functions and the acoustical signal. <span class="SpellE">Phonetica</span> 37, 55-86.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span class="SpellE"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">Fant</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;">, G.</span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;"> (1997). Acoustical Analysis of Speech In (ed.) M.J. Crocker, Encyclopedia of Acoustics, John Wiley, Vol.4, 1589-1597.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span class="SpellE"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">Fant</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">, G. (2005). Speech Acoustics and Phonetics., Spring</span><font color="#000000"><span class="m"></span></font></p> <p><font color="#000000"><span class="m"></span></font></p> <p><font color="#000000"><span class="m">Stevens, </span><span class="m">Kenneth N. </span><span class="m">(1998) Acoustic Phonetics. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA<br> </span></font></p> <br> Best wishes,<br> <br> Heriberto<br> <br> xinhui zhou wrote: <blockquote cite="mid9e2c69690608231018m7ab37b45i49e44387afbdc08e@xxxxxxxx" type="cite">Dear List, <br> <br> I am having a question about area function of vocal tract, <br> <br> Area function is used to describe the vocal tract shape. It is <br> assumed that the bent shape of vocal tract can be regarded as a <br> straight tube with varying area along the axis,and only planar wave <br> propagation exists with limitation to certain frequency range. <br> <br> I only undertand it intuitively . Is there any book or paper which <br> formuates the idea of area function , i.e. why a bent 3D shape can be <br> simplied as a tube with area function? <br> <br> Thanks in adavance, <br> <br> Xinhui <br> <br> <br> </blockquote> <br> <br> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- ******************************************************* 'Life is short but wide' Heriberto Avelino Department of Linguistics 1203 Dwinelle Hall, University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-2650 Phone: (510) 642-2757 Fax: (510) 643-5688 <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/~avelino/">http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/~avelino/</a> *******************************************************</pre> </body> </html> --------------020304060907030805060808--