. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Sep 17.

Published in final edited form as: Clin Linguist Phon. 2010 Jan;24(4-5):245–260. doi: 10.3109/02699200903532524

Table II.

Acoustic characteristics of the stimuli.

Measure	[s] for /s/		[s] for /θ/		s:θ		θ:s		[θ] for /s/		[θ] for /θ/

	Avg.	SD	Avg.	SD	Avg.	SD	Avg.	SD	Avg.	SD	Avg.	SD

N	50		24		26		30		24		46
Peak ERB^a	34.6	1.1	34.2	1.6	34.4	1.5	32.9	1.4	26.9	1.6	25.5	1.1
Compactness Index^a	0.32	0.01	0.30	0.01	0.23	0.01	0.23	0.01	0.20	0.01	0.20	0.01
Total Loudness (sones)^a	0.81	0.04	0.86	0.05	0.82	0.05	0.83	0.05	0.69	0.05	0.55	0.04
Duration (ms)^b	209	9	210	13	214	12	223	11	187	13	174	9
Vowel F2 at onset (ERB)	21.9	0.2	22.1	0.3	22.0	.0.3	21.7	0.3	21.6	0.3	22.0	0.2
Vowel f0 at midpoint (ERB)	7.5	0.1	7.3	0.2	7.5	0.2	7.6	0.2	7.3	0.2	7.4	0.2

F[5,194] > 7.8, p < 0.001,

F[5,194] = 3.3, p = 0.007.