Toward "English" Phonetics: Variability in the Pre-consonantal Voicing Effect Across English Dialects and Speakers.
Toward "English" Phonetics: Variability in the Pre-consonantal Voicing Effect Across English Dialects and Speakers.
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朝向“英语”语音：英语方言和扬声器之间的辅助声音效果的变化。
DOI：
10.3389/frai.2020.00038
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发表时间：
2020
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4
通讯作者：
Fruehwald J
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作者：
Tanner J;Sonderegger M;Stuart-Smith J;Fruehwald J
近年来，口语语料库的获取和语音处理工具的发展使得大规模的语音学和社会语言学研究成为可能。这项研究说明了这样一个大规模的方法的有用性-使用来自一系列英语方言的多个语料库的数据，收集和分析与SPADE项目-来研究如何前辅音浊音效应（较长的元音之前比无元音的阻塞，例如，bead vs. beat）在自发言语中实现，并且因方言和个体说话者而异。与以前的报告相比，控制实验室语音，发声效果被发现是大大小于自发语音，但仍受语音因素的预期范围。英语的方言在浊音效应的大小上彼此有很大的不同，而个体说话者相对于他们特定的方言几乎没有变化。这项研究表明了大规模语音研究的价值，作为发展我们对语音变异结构的理解的一种手段，并说明了如何大规模的研究，如SPADE内进行的，可以应用到语音和社会语言学研究的其他问题。
Recent advances in access to spoken-language corpora and development of speech processing tools have made possible the performance of “large-scale” phonetic and sociolinguistic research. This study illustrates the usefulness of such a large-scale approach—using data from multiple corpora across a range of English dialects, collected, and analyzed with the SPADE project—to examine how the pre-consonantal Voicing Effect (longer vowels before voiced than voiceless obstruents, in e.g., bead vs. beat) is realized in spontaneous speech, and varies across dialects and individual speakers. Compared with previous reports of controlled laboratory speech, the Voicing Effect was found to be substantially smaller in spontaneous speech, but still influenced by the expected range of phonetic factors. Dialects of English differed substantially from each other in the size of the Voicing Effect, whilst individual speakers varied little relative to their particular dialect. This study demonstrates the value of large-scale phonetic research as a means of developing our understanding of the structure of speech variability, and illustrates how large-scale studies, such as those carried out within SPADE, can be applied to other questions in phonetic and sociolinguistic research.