A comparison of vowel normalization procedures for language variation research
| Autor: | Patti Adank, Roel Smits, Roeland van Hout |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Normalization (statistics) Acoustics and Ultrasonics Computer science Speech recognition Structuur en variatie Intelligibility (communication) behavioral disciplines and activities Phonation Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Vowel otorhinolaryngologic diseases Humans GeneralLiterature_REFERENCE(e.g. dictionaries encyclopedias glossaries) Language Structure and Variation musculoskeletal neural and ocular physiology Discriminant Analysis Linguistics Linear discriminant analysis Formant Voice behavior and behavior mechanisms Female Mathematics psychological phenomena and processes |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 116, 5, pp. 3099-3107 Journal of the Acoustical Society of America The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 116, 3099-3107 |
| ISSN: | 0001-4966 |
| DOI: | 10.1121/1.1795335 |
| Popis: | An evaluation of vowel normalization procedures for the purpose of studying language variation is presented. The procedures were compared on how effectively they (a) preserve phonemic information, (b) preserve information about the talker's regional background (or sociolinguistic information), and (c) minimize anatomical/physiological variation in acoustic representations of vowels. Recordings were made for 80 female talkers and 80 male talkers of Dutch. These talkers were stratified according to their gender and regional background. The normalization procedures were applied to measurements of the fundamental frequency and the first three formant frequencies for a large set of vowel tokens. The normalization procedures were evaluated through statistical pattern analysis. The results show that normalization procedures that use information across multiple vowels ("vowel-extrinsic" information) to normalize a single vowel token performed better than those that include only information contained in the vowel token itself ("vowel-intrinsic" information). Furthermore, the results show that normalization procedures that operate on individual formants performed better than those that use information across multiple formants (e.g., "formant-extrinsic" F2-F1). |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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