Effects of dialectal origin on articulation rate in French

Avanzi, Mathieu; Dubosson, Pauline; Schwab, Sandra

doi:10.21437/interspeech.2012-201

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“…Cao & Wang (2011) also comment that even the intra-speaker variation of articulation rate is relatively small, compared to inter-speaker variation, the intra-speaker variation may be larger if styles of samples are different. Both Jacewicz et al (2009) and Avanzi et al (2012) found that reading style shows lower articulation rate than conversation style. As the analysis is run on YouTube videos, which are mostly spontaneous and conversation style, the condition of interlocutor is to be concerned.…”

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Comparison of the inter-accent variation of articulation rate between English and English with imitated Chinese accent speech

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This paper compares the articulation rate of 2 English speeches with different accents produced by Nigel Ng, a well-known stand-up comedian and youtuber, while he is taking the role of Uncle Roger and while he is not. Taking the role of Uncle Roger, Nigel Ng produces utterances with imitated Chinese accent to underline stereotypical Asian characteristics, and to contrast with his own neutralish English accent. The objective is to investigate the variation of articulation rate between 2 accents which are both produced by only one speaker. Based on the analysis of the articulation rate of Nigel Ngs speeches, it is found that both accents display different articulation rates, despite being produced by the same speaker. This finding is in accord with the claim that the accent has an effect on the articulation rate variation. However, it seems that this study contrasts the claim that the articulation rate has low intra-speaker variation in literatures.

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Comparison of the inter-accent variation of articulation rate between English and English with imitated Chinese accent speech

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Regional variation in articulation rate in French spoken in Canada

Cichocki¹,

Kaminskaïa²,

Hagar³

2023

Journal of the International Phonetic Association

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This study examines articulation rate in three varieties of Canadian French and includes consideration of speaking style (reading vs. spontaneous), speaker’s age and gender, and length of inter-pause intervals. The varieties are spoken in different geographic areas of Canada – Quebec City (Quebec), Tracadie (New Brunswick), and Windsor (Ontario) – where there are different degrees of French–English contact. The main research question asks how these different contact situations are related to variation in articulation rate. Results show that in both reading and spontaneous speech articulation rates were faster among Quebec City speakers, where French is in a low-contact setting, and slower among speakers from Tracadie and Windsor, where there are greater degrees of contact. The effects of other factors are the same across the three regions: AR was faster in spontaneous productions than in reading; AR decreased with age in the reading task; AR was faster as the length of the inter-pausal intervals increased. The discussion points to similarities and differences with varieties of French spoken in Europe and underscores the importance of language contact in accounting for variation in articulation rate.

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Articulation Rate in American English in a Corpus of YouTube Videos

Coats

2019

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Previous studies of the temporal organization of speech in American English have found differences in speaking or articulation rate according to speaker dialect or location, but small sample sizes and incomplete geographic coverage have limited the generalizability of the findings. In this study, articulation rates in American English are calculated from the automatic speech-to-text transcripts of more than 29,000 hours of video from local government and civic organization channels on YouTube from the 48 contiguous US states, containing more than 230 million individual word timings. Two questions are considered: are there regional differences in articulation rate? And do urban speakers articulate faster than rural speakers? The study presents several methodological innovations: first, it identifies a genre of regional speech suitable for interregional comparisons (meetings of local governments or civic organizations). Second, it introduces a new method for the calculation of articulation rate using cue and word timestamps from caption files. Third, it leverages US Census data to correlate the articulation rate with population for a large number of localities. The study shows that, in line with previous studies, Southerners articulate slower, and Americans from the Upper Midwest more quickly. In addition, there is a small but positive correlation between population size and articulation rate. Articulation rates are mapped using a measure of local autocorrelation.

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Effects of dialectal origin on articulation rate in French

Cited by 5 publications

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Comparison of the inter-accent variation of articulation rate between English and English with imitated Chinese accent speech

Comparison of the inter-accent variation of articulation rate between English and English with imitated Chinese accent speech

Regional variation in articulation rate in French spoken in Canada

Articulation Rate in American English in a Corpus of YouTube Videos

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