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“I didn’t fink dat was funny” [PDF]
, 2021 This paper examines the effect of middle and older age on Michael Caine’s realisation of the English dental fricatives. The results show convergence to prestige forms during middle age.
Brigg, Jamie
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Lifespans and Styles, 2016 When examining the COT /CAUGHT merger in central Pennsylvania, Labov (1994) uncovered a stylistic phenomenon, known as the “ Bill Peters Effect” , whereby speakers heavily differentiate between /ɑ/ and /ɔː/ in spontaneous speech, but converge the two ...
Joel Merry
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Supernanny: An Intraspeaker Study of Addressee Effects in the Speech of Jo Frost
Lifespans and Styles, 2017 Limited research exists evaluating the extent to which intraspeaker style-shifting is conditioned by addressee age and addressee nationality. The current study investigated Supernanny Jo Frost’s realisations of (t) as glottal or non-glottal towards ...
Chloe Blackwood
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Infants’ Discrimination of Familiar and Unfamiliar Accents in Speech [PDF]
, 2010 This study investigates infants’ discrimination abilities for familiar and unfamiliar regional English accents. Using a variation of the head-turn preference procedure, 5-month-old infants demonstrated that they were able to distinguish between their own
Boersma +43 more
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Jane Lynch and /s/: The Effect of Addressee Sexuality on Fricative Realization
Lifespans and Styles, 2016 Although there has been a sizeable amount of work on the speech of gay men (e.g., Podesva 2007), there has been little to no research on gay or bisexual women, whether interspeaker or intraspeaker.
Julie Saigusa
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Conocimiento fonético y fonética judicial [PDF]
, 2014 El objetivo de este artículo es determinar qué puede aportar el conocimiento de los fonetistas al campo de la fonética judicial y cuáles son las diferentes fases que se deben seguir en el análisis de las señales de habla que se emplean en acústica ...
Llisterri Boix, Joaquin +2 more
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On adaptive decision rules and decision parameter adaptation for automatic speech recognition [PDF]
, 2000 Recent advances in automatic speech recognition are accomplished by designing a plug-in maximum a posteriori decision rule such that the forms of the acoustic and language model distributions are specified and the parameters of the assumed distributions ...
Huo, Q, Lee, CH
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Lifespans and Styles, 2015 This is the first volume of Lifespans & Styles: Undergraduate Working Papers on Intraspeaker Variation . The journal was inspired by the fact that, while many undergraduates produce exceptional scholarship, most do not get an opportunity to share their ...
Lauren Hall-Lew
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Geminates and Picard Pronominal Clitic Allomorphy [PDF]
, 2005 In this paper, we examine five pronominal clitics in Vimeu Picard with a geminate-consonant allomorph. Assuming a doubly-linked (non-moraic) representation of geminates, we attribute the four different patterns observed to four different underlying ...
Auger, Julie, José, Brian
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Style-Shifting in Vlogging: An Acoustic Analysis of “YouTube Voice”
Lifespans and Styles, 2017 This article demonstrates evidence of context-related style-shifting on YouTube. This was achieved by comparing the vowels of vlogger Phil Lester in multiple contexts (a solo vlog, collaborative vlog, gaming video, and live video).
Sarah Lee
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