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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2011 Dec 22;55(1):105–124. doi: 10.1044/1092-4388(2011/10-0325)

Table 2.

Classification for acoustic features: For consonants, 0-voiced, 1-unvoiced, 2-stop, 3-nasal, 4-fricative, 5-affricate, 6-place, front, 7-place, middle, and 8-place, back; for vowels, 0-high F1, 1-middle F1, 2-low F1, 3-front F2, 4-middle F2, 5-back F2, 6-short duration, and 7-long duration.

Consonants
/b/ /d/ /g/ /p/ /t/ /k/ /m/ /n/ /f/ /s/ /∫/ /v/ /d/ /z/ / / / /
Voicing 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0
Manner 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 5
Place 6 7 8 6 7 8 6 7 6 7 7 6 7 7 7 7

Vowels
/æ/ /ɑ/ //ɔ/ /ε/ /eI/ //ɝ/ /I/ /i/ //ə/ʊ/ //ʊ/ //ʌ/ /u/

F1, Height 2 2 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 0
F2, Place 3 5 5 3 3 4 3 3 5 5 4 5
Duration 7 7 7 6 7 7 6 7 7 6 6 7