A diverse set of empirical findings indicate that word predictability in context influences the
fine-grained details of both speech production and comprehension. In particular, lower …

The experiments presented here provide a careful phonetic description of the effects of
phonological neighborhood density (operationalized as relative neighborhood frequency) …

The present dissertation has two main goals: 1) to provide a descriptive, acoustic
characterization of the heritage Spanish vowel system and 2) to assess the extent to which …

Two experiments examined the influence of phonologically similar neighbors on articulation
of words' initial stop consonants in order to investigate the conditions under which lexically …

The probability is one of the many factors which influence phonetic variation. Contextual
probability, which describes how predictable a linguistic unit is in some local environment …

This paper is concerned with phonetic correlates of grammatical category, specifically the
finding that nouns are pronounced with greater duration than verbs in discourse. Most …

University of Alberta Page 1 University of Alberta Modelling phonetic reduction in a corpus of
spoken English using Random Forests and MixedEffects Regression by Philip Dilts A thesis …

We explore methods for evaluating logistic mixed-effects models of both corpus and
experimental data types through simulations. We suggest that the fit of the model should be …

Many linguistic factors contribute to variation in vowel dispersion, including lexical
properties, such as word frequency, and discourse properties, such as previous mention …

This study analyzed trill variation in the Spanish of Málaga, Spain, and the factors that
conditioned this variation. Data from twelve sociolinguistic interviews with men and women …