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Age Vectors vs. Axes of Intraspeaker Variation in Vowel Formants Measured Automatically From Several English Speech Corpora [PDF]
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\ud corpora of North American and Scottish English.\ud These vowels were measured automatically with ...
Mielke, Jeff +6 more
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Age vectors vs. axes of intraspeaker variation for vowel formants in North American and Scottish English [PDF]
, 2018 We examine vowel formant variation in several natural speech corpora of North American and United Kingdom English. Labov (1994) has suggested that a speaker’s tokens of a particular vowel will be aligned along an axis coinciding with the direction that vowel is shifting diachronically in a given community. We compare the direction of change in apparent
Thomas, Erik +8 more
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Lifespans and Styles, 2016 It is my pleasure to present the second issue of the second volume of Lifespans & Styles: Undergraduate Working Papers on Intraspeaker Variation. This issue includes six papers from nine authors. The first three papers are by undergraduate students in Dr
Lauren Hall-Lew
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Requests in Indian and Sri Lankan English
World Englishes, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 523-543, September 2023., 2023 Abstract Despite notable exceptions, research on requests in world Englishes has so far largely involved role plays, questionnaires and discourse completion tasks. Moreover, research on requests in South Asian varieties of English is rather scarce. Therefore, the present study employs a multifactorial approach towards requests in Indian and Sri Lankan ...
Julia Degenhardt
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Structured variation in child heritage speakers' grammars
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 16, Issue 12, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Research on heritage language development in children can profit greatly by incorporating insights from analyses of structured variation, which is defined as the interchange of linguistic forms where the choice to use one form over the other is probabilistically conditioned by linguistic and social factors.
Naomi Shin
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The Modern Language Journal, Volume 106, Issue 4, Page 694-725, Winter 2022., 2022 Graphical abstract: Abstract This data‐driven study framed in the interactionist approach investigates the influence of social graph topology and peer interaction dynamics among foreign exchange students enrolled in an intensive German language course on second language acquisition (SLA) outcomes.
MICHAŁ B. PARADOWSKI +3 more
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Visibly invisible: The study of middle class African American English
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 16, Issue 11, November 2022., 2022 Abstract Middle class African American English (AAE) has remained largely invisible to the sociolinguistic lens despite the fact that over 50 years of research has made it one of the most examined varieties of American English. This gap in the sociolinguistic literature is largely reflective of a strategic effort on the part of linguists to dismantle ...
Tracey L. Weldon
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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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Re-examining the /eː-εː/ merger in Finland-Swedish:Regional and stylistic variation [PDF]
, 2022 This article examines regional and stylistic variation in the merger of front vowels /eː/ and /ɛː/ in Finland-Swedish. The study investigates the merger by comparing formant data from 141 speakers from four Swedish-speaking regions in Finland ...
Strandberg, Janine Astrid Elvina +7 more
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