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What is a formant?

What is a formant? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (physics) A band of frequencies, in a sound spectrum, that have a greater intensity; they determine the quality of a sound; especially the characteristic sounds of the consonants.
  2. (linguistics) a morpheme occurring as an affix to a root or stem, forming an extended root or stem.
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Period values greater than 2, or greater than 1 where formant correction is applied, lead to unnatural results and are only useful for the creation of special effects.
Thus, the placement of unrounded vowels to the left of rounded vowels on the IPA vowel chart is reflective of their position in formant space.
Vowel backing was measured by changes in second formant frequency.
This singing formant also aids the opera singer by standing out above the typical orchestral accompaniment.
It was in these papers that the term formant was first introduced.
As with vowel height, however, it is defined by a formant of the voice, in this case the second, F2, not by the position of the tongue.

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