The Formants of Monophthong Vowels in Standard Southern British English Pronunciation

Deterding, David

doi:10.1017/s0025100300005417

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“…On the other hand, the F2 frequency of /ʊ/ is low for three out of the four age groups, with only the youngest group of 20-25 year-olds showing raised mean F2. The over-65 speakers' values are in line with data in Deterding (1997). He reports similar F2 values for /u/ and /ʊ/ of males and somewhat higher F2 of /u/ than for /ʊ/ for the females in the 1980's BBC broadcasts corpus.…”

Section: High Back Vowels In Czech and Englishsupporting

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Foreign Language Learners Acquire L2 Phonetic Detail: Goose and Foot Fronting in Non-Native English

Šimáčková

Podlipský

2017

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Whether late learners discern fine phonetic detail in second-language (L2) input, form new phonetic categories, and realize them accurately remains a relevant question in L2 phonology, especially for foreign-language (FL) learning characterized by limited exposure to interactional native input. Our study focuses on advanced Czech learners’ production of the L2 English vowels GOOSE and FOOT. While English /u/ and /ʊ/ have been undergoing fronting, their Czech equivalents, /uː/ and /u/, are fully back. We show that although the spectral differentiation of /u/-/ʊ/ is smaller in the learners’ than in native speech, the vowels being contrasted primarily in length, even FL learners can shift their L2 sound categories towards native-like targets, or in this case, produce English /u/-/ʊ/ as fronted.

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Foreign Language Learners Acquire L2 Phonetic Detail: Goose and Foot Fronting in Non-Native English

Šimáčková

Podlipský

2017

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“…The vowels were synthesized using the Klatt component in the Praat computer program (Boersma & Weenink, 2011). The first step of the continuum was an unambiguous instance of/ /while the last step was an unambigous instance of/ae/, based on average values reported by Deterding (1997 The visual objects were animated pictures of two cuddly toys, one blue and one orange, with similar-sized eyes. Objects were counterbalanced between infants in both conditions.…”

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Semantics guide infants’ vowel learning: Computational and experimental evidence

Schure

Junge

Boersma

2016

Infant Behavior and Development

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Semantics guide infants' vowel learning: computational and experimental evidenceter Schure, S.M.M.; Junge, C.M.M.; Boersma, P.P.G. General rightsIt is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Disclaimer/Complaints regulationsIf you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: http://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible. a b s t r a c tIn their first year, infants' perceptual abilities zoom in on only those speech sound contrasts that are relevant for their language. Infants' lexicons do not yet contain sufficient minimal pairs to explain this phonetic categorization process. Therefore, researchers suggested a bottom-up learning mechanism: infants create categories aligned with the frequency distributions of sounds in their input. Recent evidence shows that this bottom-up mechanism may be complemented by the semantic context in which speech sounds occur, such as simultaneously present objects. To test this hypothesis, we investigated whether discrimination of a non-native vowel contrast improves when sounds from the contrast were paired consistently or randomly with two distinct visually presented objects, while the distribution of speech tokens suggested a single broad category. This was assessed in two ways: computationally, namely in a neural network simulation, and experimentally, namely in a group of 8-month-old infants. The neural network, trained with a large set of sound-meaning pairs, revealed that two categories emerge only if sounds are consistently paired with objects. A group of 49 real 8-month-old infants did not immediately show sensitivity to the pairing condition; a later test at 18 months with some of the same infants, however, showed that this sensitivity at 8 months interacted with their vocabulary size at 18 months. This interaction can be explained by the idea that infants with larger future vocabularies are more positively influenced by consistent training (and/or more negatively influenced by inconsistent training) than infants with smaller future vocabularies. This suggests that consistent pairing with distinct visual objects can help infants to discriminate speech sounds even when the auditory information does not signal a distinction. Together our results give computational as well as experimental support for the idea that semantic context plays a role in disambiguating phonetic auditory input.

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“…Selection of formant measurements Formant measurements were used to characterize the vowels of the closed-syllable words (i.e., all items in Table 1 e xcept those in the rightmost column). We restricted our attention to F1 and F2, as these are the main acoustic correlates of vowel quality, and sufficient for plotting the vowels in a two-dimensional space (e.g., Pols et al 1973;Deterding 1997).…”

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The phonetics and phonology of Dutch mid vowels before /l/

Botma¹,

Sebregts

Smakman

2012

Laboratory Phonology

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The Formants of Monophthong Vowels in Standard Southern British English Pronunciation

Cited by 195 publications

References 6 publications

Foreign Language Learners Acquire L2 Phonetic Detail: Goose and Foot Fronting in Non-Native English

Foreign Language Learners Acquire L2 Phonetic Detail: Goose and Foot Fronting in Non-Native English

Semantics guide infants’ vowel learning: Computational and experimental evidence

The phonetics and phonology of Dutch mid vowels before /l/

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