Proceedings Fonetik 2009 - Institutionen för lingvistik

Proceedings, FONETIK 2009, Dept. of Linguistics, Stockholm Universityharmonic.Figure 2: DFT spectra calculated at midpointof the open vowel in the first syllable ofmahne (same speakers).Neither nasals nor vocalic portions in a phonologicallynasal environment would be chosen assuitable contexts for measuring H1-H2. However,they do give us a clear indication of the spectralcorrelates of both vocalic and consonantalnasality, and in particular we were able to establishsystematic sex-specific harmonic differences.Figure 3: DFT spectra calculated at midpointof the open vowel in the first syllable of Pate(same speakers).Let us now turn to the type of context where onewould want to measure H1­H2. The first syllableof the word Pate (“godfather”) contains a vowelin a phonologically oral context with an openquality which maximises F1 and hence minimisesits influence on the lower harmonics. Figure 3shows DFT spectra calculated at the midpoint ofthe long open vowel in tokens of the word Pate(“godfather”) for the same set of speakers. Incontrast to the categorically identical tokens in174