Mielke, J., Thomas, E. R., Fruehwald, J., McAuliffe, M., Sonderegger, M., Stuart-Smith, J. and Dodsworth, R. (2019) Age Vectors vs. Axes of Intraspeaker Variation in Vowel Formants Measured Automatically From Several English Speech Corpora. In: International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2019), Melbourne, Australia, 5-9 Aug 2019, pp. 1258-1262. ISBN 9780646800691
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Abstract
To test the hypothesis that intraspeaker variation in vowel formants is related to the direction of diachronic change, we compare the direction of change in apparent time with the axis of intraspeaker variation in F1 and F2 for vowel phonemes in several corpora of North American and Scottish English. These vowels were measured automatically with a scheme (tested on hand-measured vowels) that considers the frequency, bandwidth, and amplitude of the first three formants in reference to a prototype. In the corpus data, we find that the axis of intraspeaker variation is typically aligned vertically, presumably corresponding to the degree of jaw opening for individual tokens, but for the North American GOOSE vowel, the axis of intraspeaker variation is aligned with the (horizontal) axis of diachronic change for this vowel across North America. This may help to explain why fronting and unrounding of high back vowels are common shifts across languages.
| Item Type: | Conference Proceedings |
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| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Stuart-Smith, Professor Jane |
| Authors: | Mielke, J., Thomas, E. R., Fruehwald, J., McAuliffe, M., Sonderegger, M., Stuart-Smith, J., and Dodsworth, R. |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
| College/School: | College of Arts > School of Critical Studies > English Language and Linguistics |
| ISSN: | 0241-0669 |
| ISBN: | 9780646800691 |
| Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2019 Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association Inc. |
| First Published: | First published in Sasha Calhoun, Paola Escudero, Marija Tabain & Paul Warren (eds.) Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Melbourne, Australia 2019 pp. 1258-1262 |
| Publisher Policy: | Reproduced under a Creative Commons license |
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