Acoustic analysis of German vowels in the Kiel Corpus of Read Speech
Acoustic analysis of German vowels in the Kiel Corpus of Read Speech
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基尔朗读语音语料库中德语元音的声学分析
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1997
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A. Simpson
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M. Pätzold;A. Simpson
There have been a number of acoustic surveys of the vowels of Standard German. These surveys vary with respect to the number of speakers investigated, speaker selection, the quantity and type of material elicited and the vowels surveyed. Jorgensen (1969) uses formant measurements from six male speakers producing word list material. Iivonen (1970) analyses words embedded in carrier phrases as well as in isolation produced by five female and four male subjects. Rausch (1972) analyses four male speakers (one phonetician and three elocutionists) reading a lengthy passage of scientific German. Iivonen (1986) studies one male speaker uttering test words embedded in a carrier phrase. Ramers (1988) analyses four male speakers each reading 63 disyllabic words and 20 sentences. The studies of Standard German are based mainly on data taken from male subjects1 and the selection of vowels surveyed is restricted, with little or no coverage being given to diphthongs, /@/ and the monophthongal exponent of /@r/. This study represents a first spectral survey of the vowel systems of 22 speakers (11 female, 11 male) from part of the PhonDat I corpus collected and labelled in Kiel (Kohler 1992) and is to date the largest survey of its kind on German. All vowels are covered including the diphthongs, /@/ and the monophthongal correlate of /@r/. In addition to providing a summary of the absolute values for the female and male speakers of the corpus we also attempt our own normalization of the vowel systems in order to be able to compare the intergender systemic relationships. As we will show, the results of both our own normalization as well as that described in Nearey (1978)