15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-15)Barcelona, Spain |
The variety of articulatory configurations used for American English rhotic liquids suggests that speakers used different articulatory strategies to achieve similar acoustic goals. In this paper, we focus on a variant of this liquid produced with strong retroflexion of the tongue tip and no sublingual space. Previous models of "bunched" articulatory configurations and less extreme "retroflex" versions of /r/ have ascribed the F3 resonance to the front cavity. In this paper, we propose that speakers who use the extreme retroflex version of /r/ have switched the cavity affiliation of F3 to the back cavity.
Bibliographic reference. Zhang, Zhaoyan / Boyce, Suzanne / Espy-Wilson, Carol Y. / Tiede, Mark K. (2003): "Acoustic strategies for production of American English "retroflex" /r/", In ICPhS-15, 1125-1128.