Voice quality and speaking rate in Icelandic rhetorical questions

N Dehé, D Wochner - Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 2024 - cambridge.org
In this paper, we show that Icelandic uses the phonetic parameters of speaking rate,
duration and voice quality (VQ) to distinguish between information-seeking questions (ISQs) …

Prosody meets pragmatics: A comparison of rhetorical questions, information-seeking questions, exclamatives, and assertions

D Wochner - 2022 - kops.uni-konstanz.de
This dissertation thesis is concerned with rhetorical questions in German at the prosody-
meaning interface. The objective of this work was the elaboration of the theoretical …

Within-formant spectral feature analysis for forensic speaker discrimination casework: A study of 45 Marwari monolinguals from Bikaner, India

N Suthar - 2023 - etheses.whiterose.ac.uk
This PhD project investigates the significance of within-formant measurements for the
vowels [i:],[ɪ],[e],[ə],[a:],[o],[u:], and [ʊ], for forensic speaker comparison. It contains six …