Regional variation in American English speech is often described in terms of shifts,
indicating which vowel sounds are converging or diverging. In the US South, the Southern …

The late twentieth century in the United States marks the decline of regional vowel systems
like the Northern Cities Shift and the Southern Vowel Shift, replaced by supralocal systems …

Southern American English is spoken in a large geographic region in the United States. Its
characteristics include back-vowel fronting (eg, in goose, foot, and goat), which has been …

This chapter provides an overview of how ancient and medieval texts, for which we do not
possess the original, can be studied. It describes a method by which a text can be …

The paper presents a case study of two popular US American CEOs. It compares the
acoustic vowel space sizes of the more charismatic speaker Steve Jobs and those of the …

Change charting the course for deeper investigation of key regional American vowel chain
shifts taking both a linguistic and social perspective. But it seems safe to describe the last …

Monophthongization, or weakening, of the canonical diphthong/aɪ/(eg bite, why) is widely
reported to be a defining feature of the Southern US dialect, as well as a triggering feature of …

Forced alignment is an effective process to speed up linguistic research. However, most
forced aligners are language-dependent, and under-resourced languages rarely have …

Better disentanglement of speech representation is essential to improve the quality of voice
conversion. Recently contrastive learning is applied to voice conversion successfully based …

Sociophonetic data analysis involves a pipeline of processing steps to convert a raw
spreadsheet of acoustic measurements to interpretable results. While most studies report the …