FAVE: Speaker fix

Rosenfelder, Ingrid; Fruehwald, Josef; Evanini, Keelan; Seyfarth, Scott; Gorman, Kyle; Prichard, Hilary; Yuan, Jiahong

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“…Audio recordings of participants' repetitions were segmented at the phone and word level for both languages using the FAVE-align forced aligner for English data (Rosenfelder et al, 2015) and via hand-segmentation in Praat for the Medʉmba data. Reliability between annotators for the Medʉmba data was achieved by having annotators segment a single file in which their phone boundary alignments were required to occur less than 3 ms from those in a sample file pre-annotated by a highly trained phonetician who was blind to the study goals.…”

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How we speak when we speak to a beat: The influence of temporal coupling on phonetic enhancement

Franich

2022

Laboratory Phonology

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Stressed syllables in languages which have them tend to show two interesting properties: They show patterns of phonetic ‘enhancement’ at the articulatory and acoustic levels, and they also show coordinative properties. They typically play a key role in coordinating speech with co-speech gesture, in coordination with a musical beat, and in other sensorimotor synchronization tasks such as speech-coordinated beat tapping and metronome timing. While various phonological theories have considered stress from both of these perspectives, there is as yet no clear explanation as to how these properties relate to one another. The present work tests the hypothesis that aspects of phonetic enhancement may in fact be driven by coordination itself by observing how phonetic patterns produced by speakers of two prosodically-distinct languages—English and Medʉmba (Grassfields Bantu)—vary as a function of timing relations with an imaginary metronome beat. Results indicate that production of syllables in time (versus on the ‘offbeat’) with the imaginary beat led to increased duration and first formant frequency—two widely observed correlates of syllable stress—for speakers of both languages. These results support the idea that some patterns of phonetic enhancement may have their roots in coordinative practices. 

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How we speak when we speak to a beat: The influence of temporal coupling on phonetic enhancement

Franich

2022

Laboratory Phonology

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Structure, Chronology, and Local Social Meaning of a Supra-Local Vowel Shift: Emergence of the Low-Back-Merger Shift in New England

Nesbitt¹,

Stanford²

2021

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The Low-Back-Merger Shift (LBMS) is a major North American vowel chain shift spreading across many disparate dialect regions. In this field-based study, we examine the speech of fifty-nine White Western Massachusetts speakers, aged 18–89. Using diagnostics in Becker (2019) and Boberg (2019b), we find the LBMS emerging at the expense of the Northern Cities Shift (Labov, Yaeger, & Steiner, 1972) and traditional New England features (Boberg, 2001; Kurath, 1939; Nagy & Roberts, 2004). In Becker's LBMS model (2019:9), the low-back merger (lot-thought) triggers front-vowel shifts. Our results suggest that local social meaning can sometimes override this chronology such that the front-vowel shifts occur before the low-back merger, even as the overall configuration comes to match Becker's predictions. Sociosymbolic meaning associated with the older New England system has led to a different temporal ordering of LBMS components, thus providing new theoretical and empirical insights into the mechanisms by which supralocal patterns are adopted.

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Phonological emergence and social reorganization: Developing a nasal /æ/ system in Lansing, Michigan

Nesbitt

2023

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Phonological rule innovation is thought to come about via reanalysis of some phonetic variation (e.g., Bermúdez-Otero, 2007; Hyman, 1975; Ohala, 1981; Pierrehumbert, 2001). Yet, empirical evidence suggests instead that the role of phonetic variation during phonological rule innovation is minor (Fruehwald, 2013, 2016). This paper adds to this ongoing debate an empirical analysis of an emergent allophonic contrast—an “/æ/ nasal system”—in White Michigan English. Analyses of speaker-level acoustic data from a sociolinguistic corpus (n = 36) and a subphonemic judgment task (n = 107) suggest that Lansing exhibits gradual phonological rule emergence. Social conditioning appears to act as the catalyst of phonological rule formation and its spread. The mechanism of actuation was thus “the chance alignment of social and phonetic variability” (Baker, Archangeli, & Mielke, 2011), suggesting that social conditioning on phonetic variability must play a major role in phonological emergence.

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FAVE: Speaker fix

Cited by 7 publications

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How we speak when we speak to a beat: The influence of temporal coupling on phonetic enhancement

How we speak when we speak to a beat: The influence of temporal coupling on phonetic enhancement

Structure, Chronology, and Local Social Meaning of a Supra-Local Vowel Shift: Emergence of the Low-Back-Merger Shift in New England

Phonological emergence and social reorganization: Developing a nasal /æ/ system in Lansing, Michigan

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