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Statistics in Phonetics
Shahin Tavakoli, Beatrice Matteo, Davide Pigoli +5
Phonetics is the scientific field concerned with the study of how speech is produced, heard and perceived. It abounds with data, such as acoustic speech recordings, neuroimaging da…
A Spatial Modeling Approach for Linguistic Object Data: Analysing dialect sound variations across Great Britain
Shahin Tavakoli, Davide Pigoli, John A. D. Aston +1
Dialect variation is of considerable interest in linguistics and other social sciences. However, traditionally it has been studied using proxies (transcriptions) rather than acoust…
The statistical analysis of acoustic phonetic data: exploring differences between spoken Romance languages
Davide Pigoli, Pantelis Z. Hadjipantelis, John S. Coleman +1
The historical and geographical spread from older to more modern languages has long been studied by examining textual changes and in terms of changes in phonetic transcriptions. Ho…
Gaussian Tree Constraints Applied to Acoustic Linguistic Functional Data
Nathaniel Shiers, John A. D. Aston, Jim Q. Smith +1
Evolutionary models of languages are usually considered to take the form of trees. With the development of so-called tree constraints the plausibility of the tree model assumptions…
Multilingual phonological analysis and speech synthesis
John Coleman, Arthur Dirksen, Sarmad Hussain +1
We give an overview of multilingual speech synthesis using the IPOX system. The first part discusses work in progress for various languages: Tashlhit Berber, Urdu and Dutch. The se…
Stochastic phonological grammars and acceptability
John Coleman, Janet Pierrehumbert
In foundational works of generative phonology it is claimed that subjects can reliably discriminate between possible but non-occurring words and words that could not be English. In…