Phonetic and technological aspects of speaker characteristics
Venice International University. Student contributions
Overall topic area
Topic to be presented
Presenter
1. Accent variation and sound change
1.1 Push-chain and drag-chain movements in vowel systems in English
Langstrof, C. (2006). Acoustic evidence for a push-chain shift in the Intermediate Period of New Zealand
English. Language Variation and Change, 18, 141–164. langstrof06.lvc.pdf
Clopper, C. G., Pisoni, D. B., & de Jong, K. (2005). Acoustic characteristics of the vowel systems of six regional
varieties of American English. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 118, 1661-1676.
clopper05.jasa.pdf
1.2 How gradual is sound change?
Janson, T. (1981) Sound change in production and perception. Language, 59, 18-34. janson1981.language.pdf
Labov, W. (1981) Resolving the Neogrammarian controversy. Language, 57, 267-308. labov1981.language.pdf
1.3 The perception of dialect
Julia Fischer-Weppler
Clopper, C. and Pisoni, D. (2004) "Perception of Dialect Variation." The Handbook of Speech Perception.
Pisoni, David B. and Robert E. Remez (eds). Blackwell. pisoni.html
Clopper, C. G., & Pisoni, D. B. (2007). Free classification of regional dialects of American English. Journal of
Phonetics 35, 421–438. clopper07.jop.pdf
Siehe auch
Adank., P. & McQueen, J. (2007). The effect of an unfamiliar regional accent on spoken word comprehension.
Proc.Int. Congress of Phonetic Sciences (Saarbrücken), 1387-1392. adank07.pdf
Adank, P., van Hout, R., and van de Velde, H. (2007). An acoustic description of the vowels of northern and
southern standard Dutch II: Regional varieties Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 121, 1130–1141.
adank2007.jasa.pdf
1.4 Computational methods for quantifying dialect differences
Heeringa, W. & Nerbonne, J. (2001). Dialect areas and dialect continua. Language Variation and Change, 13,
375-400 heeringa01.lvc.pdf
1.5
Gender differences and sound change
Agnes Pfaffinger
Dubois, S. & Horvath, B. (2000). When the music changes, you change too: gender and language change in
Cajun English. Language Variation and Change, 11, 287–313. dubois00.lvc.pdf
Eckert, P. (1989) The whole woman: sex and gender differences in variation. Language Variation and Change 1,
245-67. eckert89.lvc.pdf
Labov, W. ( 1990). The intersection of sex and social class in the course of linguistic change. Language
Variation and Change 2: 205-254.
Maclagan, M., Gordon, E., and Lewis, G. (1999). Women and sound change: conservative and innovative
behavior by the same speakers. Language Variation and Change, 11, 19-41. maclagan99.lvc.pdf
2. Physiological variation between speakers
2. 1 Vowels and speech production: age differences
Veronika Neumeyer
Menard, L., Schwartz, J-L., Boe, L-J., Aubin, J. (2007). Articulatory–acoustic relationships during vocal tract
growth for French vowels: Analysis of real data and simulations with an articulatory model. Journal of
Phonetics, 35, 1-19. menard07.jop.pdf
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Fitch, W. & Giedd, J. (1999) Morphology and development of the human vocal tract: A study using magnetic
resonance imaging . Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 106, 1511-1522. fitch1999.jasa.pdf
Lee, S., Potamianos, A. a nd Narayanan, S. (1999). Acoustics of children’s speech: Developmental changes of
temporal and spectral parameters. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 105, 1455-1468.
lee1999.jasa.pdf
Siehe auch Perry et al (2001) unter 3.1
2.2 Vowels and speech production: gender differences
Lina Hecker
See also http://www.personal.uni-jena.de/~x1siad/publications.html for related publications
Simpson, A. P. (2002). Gender-specific articulatory-acoustic relations in vowel sequences. Journal of Phonetics,
30(3):417-435. simpson02.jop.pdf
Simpson, A. P. (2001). Dynamic consequences of differences in male and female vocal tract dimensions.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 109(5):2153-2164. simpson2001.jasa.pdf
Siehe auch Überblicksartikel:
Samuelsson, Y. (2006) Gender effects on phonetic variation and speaking styles: A literature study. GSLT
Speech Technology Term Paper, autumn 2006. samglst06.pdf
Siehe auch Fitch & Gidd (1999) unter 2.1
Siehe auch Perry et al (2001) unter 3.1
2.3 Speech production: gender differences and VOT
Antonia Schulz
Karlsson, F., Zetterholm, E., and Sullivan, K. (2004). Development of a gender difference in voice onset time.
Proceedings of the 10th Australian International Conference on Speech Science & Technology, 316-321.
karlssonsst2004-287.pdf
Robb, M., Gilbert, H., & Lerman, J. (2005). Influence of gender and environmental setting on voice onset time..
Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, 57:125–133. robb2005.foliaphon.pdf
Whiteside, S.P. and J. Marshall. 2001. 'Developmental trands in voice onset time: Some evidence for sex
differences'. Phonetica 58.196-210. whiteside01.phonetica.pdf
Whiteside, S., Henry, L., and Dobbin, R. (2004). Sex differences in voice onset time: A developmental study of
phonetic context effects in British English. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 116, 1179–1183.
whiteside04jasa.pdf
Siehe auch Überblicksartikel:
Samuelsson, Y. (2006) Gender effects on phonetic variation and speaking styles: A literature study. GSLT
Speech Technology Term Paper, autumn 2006. samglst06.pdf
2.4 Speech and speaker normalisation
Clara Tillmanns
Johnson, K. (2004). Speaker normalization. In R. Remez, & D. B. Pisoni (Eds.), The Handbook of Speech
Perception. Blackwell johnson2005.pdf
Johnson, K., Strand, E. A., & D’Imperio, M. (1999). Auditory-visual integration of talker gender in vowel
perception. Journal of Phonetics, 27, 359–384. johnson1999jop.pdf
Johnson, K. 1990. The role of perceived speaker identity in F0 normalization of vowels. Journal of the
Acoustical Society of America, 88, 642-654. johnsonjasa1990.pdf
3. Technology
3.1
Automatic recognition of gender
Meral Akyol
Childers, D.G. and K. Wu. (1991). Gender recognition from speech: Part II. Fine analysis Journal of the
Acoustical Society of America, 90, 1841–56. childers91.jasa.pdf
Perry, T., Ohde, R. & Ashmead, D. 2001. ‘The acoustic bases for gender identification from
children’s voices.’ Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 109, 2988-2998. perry01.jasa.pdf
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Wu, K. and D.G. Childers. (1991). Gender recognition from speech: Part I. Coarse analysis. Journal of the
Acoustical Society of America, 90, 1828-40. wu91.jasa.pdf
3.2
Speaker characteristics and speech synthesis
Jurafsky, D., Martin, J.H. (to appear). Speech and Language Processing, chapter 8. Prentice-Hall, New Jersey,
2nd edition. jurafsky.pdf
Kuwabara, H., Sagisaka, Y. (1995). Acoustic characteristics of speaker individuality: Control and conversion.
Speech Communication 16:165-173. kuwabara95.specom.pdf
Schroeter, J. (2005). Voice Modification for applications in speech synthesis. In Brown, K., editor, Encyclopedia
of Language and Linguistics. Elsevier Science, 2nd edition. schroeter.pdf
3.3.
Phonetic and acoustic bases of speaker recognition
Furui, S. (1981) Cepstral analysis technique for automatic speaker verification. IEEE Transactions on Acoustics,
Speech and Signal Processing, 29, 254-272. furui81.ieee.pdf
Nolan, F. (1983). The bases of between-speaker differences. Chapter 2 in The Phonetic Bases of Speaker
Recognition. CUP. nolan.pdf
Xu, L., Oglesby, J., and Mason, J. (1989): The optimazation of perceptually-based features for speaker
identification. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, S10b.2, 520-524.
xu89.icassp.pdf
Wolf, J. (1972) Efficient acoustic parameters for speaker recognition Journal of the Acoustical Society of
America, 51, 2044-2056. wolf72.jasa.pdf
4. Speaker characteristics and phonetic/phonological processing
4.1 The influences of L2 on L1:
Carolin Grube
Sancier M.L & Fowler, C.A. (1997) "Gestural drift in a bilingual speaker of Brazilian Portuguese and English",
Journal of Phonetics 25,4: 421-436. sancierjop1997.pdf
Yeni-Komshian, G. H., Flege, J. E. & Liu, S. (2000). Pronunciation proficiency in the first and second
languages of Korean-English bilinguals. Bilingualism, Language and Cognition, 3, 131-149.
yenikomshian2000blc.pdf
4.2 Hyperspeech and Motherese
Anna Rühl
Wassink, A., Wright, R., and Franklin, A. (2007). Intraspeaker variability in vowel production: An investigation
of motherese, hyperspeech, and Lombard speech in Jamaican speakers. Journal of Phonetics, 35, 363-379.
wassink07.jop.pdf
4.3 Sociophonetic studies and the perception of masculinity
Angelika Giglberger
Gelfer, M. & Schofield, K 2000. Comparison of acoustic and perceptual measures of voice in male-to-female
transsexuals perceived as female vs. those perceived as male. Journal of Voice 14, pp. 22-33.
gelfer00.jvoice.pdf
Munson, B. (2007) The Acoustic Correlates of Perceived Masculinity, Perceived Femininity, and Perceived
Sexual Orientation. Language & Speech, 50, 125-142. munson07.ls.pdf
Munson, B., Jefferson, S. V., & McDonald, E. C. (2006). The influence of perceived sexual orientation on
fricative perception. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 119, 2427 – 2437. munson2006.jasa.pdf
Smyth, R. & Henry, H. (2002) Phonetics, gender and sexual orientation. Proc.of the ACL conference, 299-311.
Smyth_Rogers_2002.pdf
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5. Speaker variation and the lexicon
5.1 Sound change in progress and the lexicon (vowel merger in New Zealand English)
Sarah Stolze
Hay, Jennifer, Paul Warren and Katie Drager (2006) Factors influencing speech perception in the context of a
merger-in-progress. Journal of Phonetics, 34 (4): 458-484 hay06.jop.pdf
Warren, Paul, Jennifer Hay and Brynmor Thomas. (forthcoming) The loci of sound change effects in
recognition and perception. To appear in Laboratory Phonology 9 warrenlabphon9.pdf
5.2 Effect of L1 in lexical processing of L2
Cho, T., & McQueen, J.M. (2006). Phonological versus phonetic cues in native and nonnative listening: Korean
and Dutch listeners' perception of Dutch and English consonants. Journal of the Acoustical Society of
America, 119, 3085-3096. cho2006.jasa.pdf
Weber, A. & Cutler, A. (2006). First-language phonotactics in second-language listening. Journal of the
Acoustical Society of America, 119, 597-607 weber2006.jasa.pdf
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