This is an acoustic and articulatory study of Canadian French rhotic vowels, ie, mid front
rounded vowels/ø œ̃ œ/produced with a rhotic perceptual quality, much like English [ɚ] or …

Researchers investigating the vowel systems of languages or dialects frequently employ
normalization methods to minimize between-speaker variability in formant patterns while …

The fronting of the two high-back vowels/uː/and/ʊ/in Southern British English is very well
documented, but mainly in the acoustic domain. This paper presents articulatory …

The evaluation of normalization methods sometimes focuses on the maximization of vowel-
space similarity. This focus can lead to the adoption of methods that erase legitimate …

This study investigates children's real time incrementation of language change as it is
impacted by community-wide patterns of linguistic variability. The investigation combines …

Many students will arrive at college speaking a dialect that is considered non-standardized
or stigmatized due to the socially stratified nature of language. In the United States, where …

In this paper, we study speech development in children using longitudinal acoustic and
articulatory data. Data were collected yearly from grade 1 to grade 4 from four female and …

Methods from automatic speech recognition (ASR), such as segmentation and forced
alignment, have facilitated the rapid annotation and analysis of very large adult speech …

Komo, an endangered Koman language spoken in Western Ethiopia, features a system of
vowel assimilation commonly referred to as 'advanced tongue root'(ATR) harmony. Prior …

This study analyzes relative accommodation of African American English (AAE) usage in
peer interactions for 201 African American adolescent dyads at Grades 6, 8, and 10. A …