Segmental features of child-directed speech (CDS) were studied in a corpus drawn from thirtynine mothers living Tyneside, England. Focus was on the phonetic variants used for (t) word-medial and word-final prevocalic contexts since it is known that these display clear sociolinguistic patterning adult community. Variant usage CDS found to differ markedly interadult speech. Effects also with respect age gender children being addressed. Speech girls generally contained more standard than boys,...

This paper presents a systematic comparison of various measures f0 range in female speakers English and German. F0 was analyzed along two dimensions, level (i.e., overall height) span (extent modulation within given speech sample). These were examined using types measures, one based on "long-term distributional" (LTD) methods, the other specific landmarks that are linguistic nature ("linguistic" measures). The methods used to identify whether what basis or bases these languages differ range....

This paper offers a variationist critique of aspects phonological theory and method, focusing on advances in descriptive methods highlighting the problems that need to be addressed explaining variation. On one hand, socially situated language samples which have been systematically collected analysed constitute legitimate – indeed often vital source evidence utilised by linguists for assessing refining theoretical models. other variationists cannot operate isolation from concerns, can benefit...

In this special collection entitled Marking 50 Years of Research on Voice Onset Time and the Voicing Contrast in World's Languages, we have compiled eleven studies investigating voicing contrast 19 languages. The provides extensive data obtained from 270 speakers across those languages, examining VOT other acoustic, aerodynamic articulatory measures. languages studied may be divided into four groups: 'aspirating' with a two-way (English, three varieties German); 'true voicing' (Russian,...

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In this article we trace the history of [bnu;]‐like variants British English /r/. Although [bnu;] has generally been dismissed as an infantilism, or indicative affected disordered speech, it seems to have become established accent feature non‐standard south‐eastern accents. We present tentative evidence suggest may be related presence similar in London East End Jewish community. After summarising previous discussions [bnu;], concentrate on a sociophonetic study /r/ used by speakers from...

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<p class="p1">In two categorization experiments using phonotactically legal nonce words, we tested Australian English listeners’ perception of all vowels in their own accent as well four less familiar regional varieties which differ how vowel realizations diverge from English: London, Yorkshire, Newcastle (UK), and New Zealand. Results Experiment 1 indicated that amongst the differences described sociophonetic studies attested our stimulus materials, only a small subset caused greater...

ABSTRACTS Previous studies have demonstrated a number of ways in which normal speakers' phonetic performance varies across reading and spontaneous speech tasks. This study set out to investigate whether similar differences sampling tasks were found mixed group dysarthric subjects. A selection segmental prosodic parameters investigated acoustically the five mild speakers matched control The results that breath–pause position, unstressed vowel duration voice‐onset time subject variation task...

Abstract There is now abundant evidence that phonetic forms are shaped by probabilistic effects reflecting predictability or informativity . We outline a number of challenges for such work, where theoretical claims often based on small differences in acoustic measurements, interpretations statistical effect sizes. caveats about the methods and assumptions encountered many studies effects, particularly regarding corpus-based approaches. consider wide range factors influence patterns...

Forty-five patients diagnosed as having non-organic dysphonia were assigned in rotation to one of three groups. Patients group received no treatment and acted a control group. the other two groups programme either ‘indirect’ therapy or ‘direct with indirect’ therapy, respectively. A self-report questionnaire vocal performance, observed ratings voice quality, computer-derived acoustic measurements (signal-to-noise ratio, pitch perturbation amplitude perturbation) carried out on all before...

This paper reports the results of an experimental study designed to investigate how listeners learn create new associations between phonetic properties speech signal and external social referents. Very little is known this learning takes place in children, it a particularly challenging area given difficulty controlling some variables which are likely be important factors children's productive interpretative dimensions social-indexical variation. Thus, study, we focus on adult order develop...