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Published in final edited form as: J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2012 Mar 12;55(6):1807–1821. doi: 10.1044/1092-4388(2012/11-0154)

Table 4.

Mean (SD) lambda measures for tense and lax vowels and descriptive statistics for vowel duration, as a function of condition.

Measure Gender Habitual Clear Hearing impaired Overenunciate
Tense lambda F 288 (245) 308 (309) 333 (310) 335 (330)
M 216 (178) 232 (201) 243 (199) 245 (206)
All 253 (218) 271 (264) 289 (265) 291 (262)
Lax lambda F 230 (153) 247 (170) 279 (188) 296 (269)
M 229 (144) 225 (152) 238 (167) 251 (164)
All 230 (149) 236 (162) 259 (179) 274 (225)
Tense vowel duration (ms) All 116 (46) 136 (60) 152 (59) 169 (73)
Lax vowel duration (ms) All 83 (33) 94 (40) 106 (46) 114 (46)