Other Research
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The phonetics and phonology of H*, L+H*, and L*+H in English
- Researchers: Gina Garding and
Amalia Arvaniti
- This project investigated the
three-way contrast between H*, L*+H and L+H* in English by examining
production data in which speakers used the accents in different
contexts and with increasing emphasis.
- Publications and presentations
- Arvaniti, Amalia and Gina Garding (2007) Dialectal variation in the
rising accents of American English. In J. Cole and J. H. Hualde
(eds), Papers in Laboratory Phonology
9, pp. 547-576. Berlin, New York: Mouton de
Gruyter.
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"High-rise-terminals" in London and Southern California English
- Researchers: Angie
Barry (with Amalia
Arvaniti)
- Angie Barry, a visiting
graduate student from the University of Sheffield (UK) funded by the
Worldwide University Network (WUN), worked in the lab on her
dissertation which investigated the phonetics, phonology, and
sociolinguistics of
"high-rise-terminals" in London and Southern California English. Her
thesis is now published.
- Publications and presentations
- Barry, Angie and Amalia Arvaniti (2006) "Uptalk" in Southern Californian
and London English.
British Association of Academic Phoneticians conference (BAAP 2006),
poster session, 10th-12th April 2006, Edinburgh.
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Locating F0 elbows
- Researchers: Alex del Giudice, Ryan Shosted, Amalia Arvaniti
- In this project we compare
human annotation to
a number of algorithms that have been used to automatically locate the
position of elbows which are perhaps the most difficult pitch targets
to
locate. Our aim was to test whether human annotators are as unreliable
as they have sometimes be said to be and to find a procedure that will
allow us to reliably annotate elbows in intonation research.
- Publications and presentations
- del Giudice, Alex, Ryan K. Shosted,
Kathryn Davidons, Mohammad Salihie & Amalia Arvaniti (2007). Comparing
methods for locating pitch "elbows". Proceedings of ICPhS XVI, pp.
117-1120.
- Shosted, Ryan, Alex del Giudice, and
Amalia Arvaniti (2006) Comparing
methods
for measuring pitch "elbows". J.
Acoust. Soc. Am. 120,
3091. (Poster presented at the 4th joint
meeting of the Acoustical Society of Japan and the Acoustical Society
of America, Honolulu, HI, 28 November-2 December, 2006.)
