(2007-08) Yuen, Ivan; Lee, Alice; Gibbon, Fiona; This research was supported by BBSRC (grant number BB/E003419/1) to the first author.
This paper provides preliminary data about
EPG contact for 3 different vowels in Southern
British English (SBE) and Scottish English (SE)
across eleven speakers. The EPG data were
compared with vowel formants to test the
hypothesis that the amount of EPG contact as an
indicator of tongue height or anteriority will result
in a corresponding change in F1 and F2. The
results suggest that Percent Contact varies with the
three monopthongs. F1, F2 and F2-F1 difference
varies with the amount of Percent Contact.
