FIG. 28. Approximation to the formant transitions for the CVC
syllable [bId] (bottom panel) was derived in terms of a model (top
panels) that takes into account the average vowel formant positions
(dashed lines) and incremental perturbations due to each consonant
(solid lines), after Broad and Fertig (1970). At least for the vowel
/ I /, the data suggest that formant motions can be additively
decomposed into (1) an underlying vowel target, (2) a transition
associated with the prevocalic consonant, and (3) a transition
associated with the postvocalic consonant.
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