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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Aug 3.
Published in final edited form as: Comput Speech Lang. 2012 May 8;27(1):116–134. doi: 10.1016/j.csl.2012.04.002

Table 3:

Spearman rank correlations durations of individual phones and classes of phones with manual measurements of speech discontinuity (SDR).

Individual phones
Vowels Consonants
phone rho p-value phone rho p-value
ah 0.55 <0.001 w 0.13 0.238
uw 0.06 0.599 r −0.01 0.904
ao 0.14 0.185 jh 0.05 0.664
ax 0.08 0.435 dh 0.07 0.516
aw 0.21 0.050 d −0.01 0.943
oy 0.20 0.061 y −0.13 0.236
ih 0.43 <0.001 k 0.02 0.858
ay 0.01 0.897 ch −0.08 0.432
uh 0.27 0.012 g 0.20 0.060
ey 0.11 0.310 f −0.06 0.561
iy 0.35 <0.001 th −0.09 0.379
ae 0.13 0.226 t −0.05 0.658
aa 0.22 0.043 n 0.07 0.502
eh 0.21 0.043 zh 0.00 0.983
ow 0.10 0.339 m 0.24 0.026
v −0.23 0.028
s −0.10 0.335
l 0.14 0.180
p 0.04 0.734
b 0.09 0.383
z −0.15 0.163
hh 0.00 0.969
Phone Classes
All Vowels 0.51 <0.001
All Consonants 0.05 0.654
All phones 0.40 <0.001
AVL-C1 [ah,aa,ih,iy,uh,eh] 0.59 <0.001
AVL-C2 [ah,aa,ih,iy,uh,eh,m] 0.62 <0.001