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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Apr 10.
Published in final edited form as: J Acoust Soc Am. 2005 Sep;118(3 Pt 1):1677–1688. doi: 10.1121/1.2000788

TABLE III.

Vowel space area (Hz2), vowel space dispersion (Hz), and vowel peripheralization (Hz) results for each English and Croatian talker in two speaking styles. Negative sign indicates vowel space area reduction and a move towards the vowel space center rather than towards the periphery for talker EF1.

Vowel space area (Hz2)
Vowel space dispersion (Hz)
Vowel space peripheralization (Hz) in clear speech (relative to conv.)
Talker Conv. Clear Cl-Conv. Diff. (prop. conv.) Conv. Clear Cl-Conv. Diff. (prop. conv.) a i u Ave.
EF3 101 048.06 159 701.50 58 653.44 0.58 457.17 549.52 92.35 0.20 54.39 191.50 37.80 94.57
EF2 116 190.42 167 536.05 51 345.63 0.44 513.62 595.70 82.09 0.16 67.01 144.98 35.80 82.60
EF1 235 006.41 221 917.33 −13 089.09 −0.06 633.96 648.83 14.87 0.02 32.36 64.92 −68.10 9.73
EM2 157 295.10 203 727.19 46 432.09 0.30 444.15 508.21 64.06 0.14 21.00 86.42 85.15 64.19
EM1 83 843.63 141 049.68 57 206.05 0.68 436.50 509.62 73.12 0.17 53.09 67.75 185.31 102.05
Avg. 138 676.72 178 786.35 40 109.62 0.39 497.08 562.38 65.30 0.14 45.57 111.12 55.19 70.63
CM1 121 897.66 197 783.65 75 886.00 0.62 420.21 508.72 88.51 0.21 39.86 75.71 186.29 100.62
CM2 164 867.28 246 607.29 81 740.00 0.50 489.70 549.09 59.38 0.12 67.94 65.14 91.64 74.91
CM3 137 553.06 178 709.15 41 156.10 0.30 493.70 522.40 28.70 0.06 28.56 53.52 46.39 42.82
CF2 488 133.66 585 893.24 97 759.58 0.20 791.85 815.35 23.50 0.03 81.52 54.71 110.12 82.12
CF1 184 795.81 284 005.05 99 209.24 0.54 522.64 663.28 140.64 0.27 4.63 214.11 259.18 159.30
Avg. 219 449.49 298 599.68 79 150.18 0.43 543.62 611.77 68.15 0.14 44.50 92.64 138.72 91.95