Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

In studies of song corpora, longer vowels have been shown to be preferentially aligned with longer notes in textsetting. Here we test this alignment preference in English in an experimental setting and replicate the finding for duration in a task where participants constructed a textsetting by placing target words in appropriate slots. We test two types of vowel duration: intrinsic duration and vowel duration that is contextually determined by the voicing of the following consonant. We show that both of these types of duration have an effect on textsetting preferences.