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 third edition of Miriam Meyerhoff's highly successful textbook provides a solid, up-to-
date appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of the field and covers foundation issues …

Linguistic variation has consistently been found to have social meaning in its association
with the status and stance of speakers in the context of interaction. This indexical function of …

Corpus-based studies have become increasingly common in linguistic typology over recent
years, amounting to the emergence of a new field that we call corpus-based typology. The …

Variation across talkers in the acoustic-phonetic realization of speech sounds is a pervasive
property of spoken language. The present study provides evidence that variation across …

Semiautomatic analysis of digital speech collections is transforming the science of
phonetics. Convenient search and analysis of large published bodies of recordings …

Over the past decade, a group of prolific and innovative evolutionary biologists has sought to
reinvent historical linguistics through the use of phylogenetic and phylogeographical …

Court reporters are certified at either 95% or 98% accuracy, depending on their certifying
organization; however, the measure of accuracy is not one that evaluates their ability to …

Fast Track is a formant tracker implemented in Praat that attempts to automatically select the
best analysis from a set of candidates. The best track is selected by modeling smooth …

Intelligibility is the ultimate goal of human communication. However, measuring it objectively
remained elusive until the 1940s when physicist Harvey Fletcher pioneered a …