Overview
- Includes cross-dialect and cross-language vowel production and perception as well as Forensic voice
- Comparison Reviews of theoretical and experimental studies
- With many examples
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing (MASP)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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VISC Perception
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VISC Production
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VISC Production
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VISC in Different Populations of Speakers
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VISC Applied
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Back Matter
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About this book
It has been traditional in phonetic research to characterize monophthongs using a set of static formant frequencies, i.e., formant frequencies taken from a single time-point in the vowel or averaged over the time-course of the vowel. However, over the last twenty years a growing body of research has demonstrated that, at least for a number of dialects of North American English, vowels which are traditionally described as monophthongs often have substantial spectral change. Vowel inherent spectral change has been observed in speakers’ productions, and has also been found to have a substantial effect on listeners’ perception. In terms of acoustics, the traditional categorical distinction between monophthongs and diphthongs can be replaced by a gradient description of dynamic spectral patterns. This book includes chapters addressing various aspects of vowel inherent spectral change (VISC), including theoretical and experimental studies of the perceptually relevant aspects of VISC, the relationship between articulation (vocal-tract trajectories) and VISC, historical changes related VISC, cross-dialect, cross-language, and cross-age-group comparisons of VISC, the effects of VISC on second-language speech learning, and the use of VISC in forensic voice comparison.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Vowel Inherent Spectral Change
Editors: Geoffrey Stewart Morrison, Peter F. Assmann
Series Title: Modern Acoustics and Signal Processing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14209-3
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-14208-6Published: 14 December 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-43157-9Published: 29 January 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-14209-3Published: 14 December 2012
Series ISSN: 2364-4915
Series E-ISSN: 2364-4923
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 286
Topics: Signal, Image and Speech Processing, Phonology and Phonetics, Acoustics, Biometrics, Natural Language Processing (NLP)