Difference between revisions of "Formant"

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A peak of resonance in the vocal tract. Every configuration of the vocal tract has its own set of characteristic formant frequencies. Each formant has a centre frequency where the amplification is maximal. These peaks only incidentally coincide with a harmonic of the fundamental frequency.

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Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics