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title = "Multidimensional acoustic variation in vowels across {E}nglish dialects",
author = "Tanner, James and
Sonderegger, Morgan and
Stuart-Smith, Jane",
editor = "Nicolai, Garrett and
Chodroff, Eleanor",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 19th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology",
month = jul,
year = "2022",
address = "Seattle, Washington",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.sigmorphon-1.8",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.sigmorphon-1.8",
pages = "72--82",
abstract = "Vowels are typically characterized in terms of their static position in formant space, though vowels have also been long-known to undergo dynamic formant change over their timecourse. Recent studies have demonstrated that this change is highly informative for distinguishing vowels within a system, as well as providing additional resolution in characterizing differences between dialects. It remains unclear, however, how both static and dynamic representations capture the main dimensions of vowel variation across a large number of dialects. This study examines the role of static, dynamic, and duration information for 5 vowels across 21 British and North American English dialects, and observes that vowels exhibit highly structured variation across dialects, with dialects displaying similar patterns within a given vowel, broadly corresponding to a spectrum between traditional {`}monophthong{'} and {`}diphthong{'} characterizations. These findings highlight the importance of dynamic and duration information in capturing how vowels can systematically vary across a large number of dialects, and provide the first large-scale description of formant dynamics across many dialects of a single language.",
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%T Multidimensional acoustic variation in vowels across English dialects
%A Tanner, James
%A Sonderegger, Morgan
%A Stuart-Smith, Jane
%Y Nicolai, Garrett
%Y Chodroff, Eleanor
%S Proceedings of the 19th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology
%D 2022
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Seattle, Washington
%F tanner-etal-2022-multidimensional
%X Vowels are typically characterized in terms of their static position in formant space, though vowels have also been long-known to undergo dynamic formant change over their timecourse. Recent studies have demonstrated that this change is highly informative for distinguishing vowels within a system, as well as providing additional resolution in characterizing differences between dialects. It remains unclear, however, how both static and dynamic representations capture the main dimensions of vowel variation across a large number of dialects. This study examines the role of static, dynamic, and duration information for 5 vowels across 21 British and North American English dialects, and observes that vowels exhibit highly structured variation across dialects, with dialects displaying similar patterns within a given vowel, broadly corresponding to a spectrum between traditional ‘monophthong’ and ‘diphthong’ characterizations. These findings highlight the importance of dynamic and duration information in capturing how vowels can systematically vary across a large number of dialects, and provide the first large-scale description of formant dynamics across many dialects of a single language.
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%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.sigmorphon-1.8
%P 72-82
Markdown (Informal)
[Multidimensional acoustic variation in vowels across English dialects](https://aclanthology.org/2022.sigmorphon-1.8) (Tanner et al., SIGMORPHON 2022)
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