Age vectors vs. axes of intraspeaker variation for vowel formants in North American and Scottish English

Erik Thomas; Jeff Mielke; Josef Fruehwald; Jordan  Holley; Michael McAulliffe; Morgan Sonderegger; Jane Stuart-Smith; Robin Dodsworth; Tyler Kendall

Age vectors vs. axes of intraspeaker variation for vowel formants in North American and Scottish English

Erik Thomas, Jeff Mielke, Josef Fruehwald, Jordan Holley, Michael McAulliffe, Morgan Sonderegger, Jane Stuart-Smith, Robin Dodsworth, Tyler Kendall

School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

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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 time with the axis of intraspeaker variation, for several vowel phonemes, in order to test this assertion. This is an opportunity to use Polyglot (McAuliffe et al. 2017, Figure 1) for large-scale vowel analysis. This is phase one of a project which will measure dozens of English corpora from both sides of the Atlantic.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 22 Jun 2018
Event	LabPhon 16: Variation, development and impairment: Between phonetics and phonology - University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal Duration: 19 Jun 2018 → 22 Jun 2018 Conference number: 16 http://labphon16.labphon.org

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Conference	LabPhon 16
Abbreviated title	LabPhon
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Lisbon
Period	19/06/18 → 22/06/18
Internet address	http://labphon16.labphon.org

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Age vectors vs. axes of intraspeaker variation for vowel formants in North American and Scottish English

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Age vectors vs. axes of intraspeaker variation for North American and Scottish English vowel formants

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Age vectors vs. axes of intraspeaker variation for vowel formants in North American and Scottish English

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Speech Across Dialects of English (SPADE): Developing an Integrated Speech Corpus Analysis system for assessing stability and change in spoken Cross-Atlantic English

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Age vectors vs. axes of intraspeaker variation for North American and Scottish English vowel formants

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