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Published in final edited form as: Am J Speech Lang Pathol. 2012 Jan 9;21(2):124–139. doi: 10.1044/1058-0360(2011/11-0009)

Table 3.

Acoustic Characteristics of /s/-/θ/ 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