Abstract We present the Montreal Forced Aligner (MFA), a new opensource system for
speech-text alignment. MFA is an update to the Prosodylab-Aligner, and maintains its key …

This paper presents an analysis of the performance and usability of automatic speech
processing tools on six different varieties of English spoken in the British Isles. The tools …

This paper analyzes td-deletion, the process whereby coronal stops/t, d/are deleted after a
consonant at the end of the word (eg, best, kept, missed) in the speech of 93 speakers from …

Forced alignment software is now widely used in contemporary sociolinguistics, and is
quickly becoming a crucial methodological tool as an increasing number of studies begin to …

While forced alignment has become an essential part of data processing in phonetic
research, state-of-the-art aligners are often exclusively tailor-made for majority dialects, such …

The retraction of/s/, particularly in/str/clusters, toward [ʃ] has been investigated in British,
Australian, and American English and shown to be conditioned phonetically and …

This study investigates the plasticity of phonological boundaries during discourse in a lingua
franca. We tracked the production of 34 Spanish learners of English conversing with two …

This thesis is a sociophonetic and phonological study of velar nasals in the North West of
England, concerned specifically with the variable presence of [SPECIAL CHARACTERS …

This thesis provides a detailed acoustic description of the phonetic variation and changes
evident in the monophthongal vowel system of Coloured South African English in Cape …

This thesis presents a sociophonetic analysis of two dialect variables in twenty-six speakers
from Stoke-on-Trent; specifically, speakers who worked in the city's pottery industry. The …