Abstract
Recordings were made of ten speakers of California English producing the set of test words: “bee, bow, boy, bed, bad, bud” in seven different styles of speech: (1) free speech during an interview in which subjects were induced to say the test words without their having been previously spoken by the experimenter; (2) spontaneously spoken lists of words; (3) spontaneously produced sentences; (4) repetition of sentences spoken by the experimenter; (5) reading a continuous passage; (6) reading the test words in the sentence “The word is ___”; (7) reading the test words in lists. Each word was made to occur in phrase final, stressed position. The data were analyzed using computer programs that determine the frequency, amplitude, and intensity of the first four formants. The nucleus of each vowel in each word in each style was determined by an algorithm. The nucleus of the vowel differed in some styles of speech. Some valid generalizations about the speech of educated Southern Californians can be made on the basis of data from read speech. [This research was supported by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the Department of Defense under Contract No. DAHC15-73-C-0080.]
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