Fricative-affricate continuum
As the duration of the silent interval, or "SI" between the preceding vowel V1 and the following consonant C increases, the perception of the consonant C changes from fricatives to affricates.
(Dorman et al., Journal of Phonetics, 8, 397-405,1980; Yasu et al., Proc. Spring Meet. Acoust. Soc. Jpn., 2010)
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70 |
80 |
90 |
100 |
V1 only |
CV2 only |
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