An Intraspeaker Variation Study of Scottish English /r/ Pharyngealisation [PDF]
Lifespans and Styles, 2016 Pharyngealisation— the retraction of the tongue towards the pharynx— of prepausal and preconsonantal /r/ has been recognised as an emergent strategy of derhoticisation in Scotland’s Central Belt (Stuart-Smith 2007).
Ruaridh Purse, Euan McGill
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Do People Tweet Like They Speak? A Study of Intraspeaker Variation
Lifespans and Styles, 2017 This study investigates young female speakers from Scotland to determine to what extent they use Scots dialect features in their written tweets and spoken language. It analyses the production of variation in phonology, morphosyntax, and lexis.
Naomi Crawford
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Eliciting Big Data From Small, Young, or Non-standard Languages: 10 Experimental Challenges [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 The aim of this work is to identify and analyze a set of challenges that are likely to be encountered when one embarks on fieldwork in linguistic communities that feature small, young, and/or non-standard languages with a goal to elicit big sets of rich ...
Evelina Leivada +2 more
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Working-Class Heroes: Intraspeaker Variation in General Secretary Len McCluskey [PDF]
Lifespans and Styles, 2017 We examine “Liverpool lenition” in the speech of Len McCluskey, a speaker of “Scouse”. Scouse is a variety of Liverpool English associated with the working-class persona of the “Liverpudlian”.
Aïsha Daw, Xueyan Zhou
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Lifespans and Styles, 2015 This study examines the stylistic use of ‘creaky voice’ in a single speaker: the American actress Scarlett Johansson. Recently, there has been a marked increase in both media and academic interest in creaky voice, with work by Yuasa (2010) and Wolk et al.
Francesca Shaw, Victoria Crocker
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Functionally Equivalent Variants in a Non-standard Variety and Their Implications for Universal Grammar: A Spontaneous Speech Corpus [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Findings from the field of experimental linguistics have shown that a native speaker may judge a variant that is part of her grammar as unacceptable, but still use it productively in spontaneous speech.
Evelina Leivada +4 more
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Cost-sensitive learning for emotion robust speaker recognition. [PDF]
ScientificWorldJournal, 2014 In the field of information security, voice is one of the most important parts in biometrics. Especially, with the development of voice communication through the Internet or telephone system, huge voice data resources are accessed. In speaker recognition, voiceprint can be applied as the unique password for the user to prove his/her identity.
Li D, Yang Y, Dai W.
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Speech Signal and Facial Image Processing for Obstructive Sleep Apnea Assessment. [PDF]
Comput Math Methods Med, 2015 Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common sleep disorder characterized by recurring breathing pauses during sleep caused by a blockage of the upper airway (UA). OSA is generally diagnosed through a costly procedure requiring an overnight stay of the patient at the hospital.
Espinoza-Cuadros F +5 more
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Intraspeaker Priming across the New Zealand English Short Front Vowel Shift [PDF]
Language and Speech, 2022 Dan Villarreal, Lynn Clark
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Capturing the Intraspeaker Heterogeneity of Vocal Hyperfunction Using Spatiotemporal Indices of Relative Fundamental Frequency [PDF]
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing ResearchLaura E Toles +2 more
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