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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Aug 6.
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 8.

Acoustic Characteristics of English /d/-/g/ Stimuli, Front-vowel Context

Measure [d] for /d/ [d] for /g/ d:g g:d [g] for /d/ [g] for /g/

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

N 14 10 6 13 11 14
Peak ERBa 26.14 1.66 26.30 2.21 26.00 1.55 25.85 4.58 26.91 1.81 26.50 1.83
Compactness Indexa 0.20 0.03 0.18 0.02 0.19 0.02 0.20 0.04 0.22 0.04 0.24 0.05
Peak Loudness (sones)a 43.98 9.55 47.58 10.53 48.13 4.09 45.74 4.90 48.05 9.96 49.62 7.18