The Spectrogram Song

Spectrograms tell us a lot They show frequencies over time and Represent their intensity By shading them a darker colour It's so amazing Sonorants like vowels, nasals, and approximants Have several dark bands that we call the formants F1 is low for [i] and [u] Front vowels have a high F2 Don't forget the vowels are the darkest sounds with formant structure Your rhotic sounds will have a lowered F3 A stop closure is followed by a release And fricatives should be a little noisy At least acoustically, -coustically and If you've got a voiceless sound then There should be low energy in The lowest frequency 'cause that's where the voicing bar frequents Nasal sounds are just the opposite Nasal murmur is the cause It's one of the things that make it's fun Doing a spectrogram reading