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3 - Sociophonetics and Its Methods

Vowels and Sibilants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2021

Tyler Kendall  and
Valerie Fridland
Tyler Kendall
Affiliation:
University of Oregon
Valerie Fridland
Affiliation:
University of Nevada, Reno
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Summary

Chapter 3 continues the focus on methodological concerns, outlining and demonstrating how typical acoustic analyses proceeds from fieldwork to acoustic measurements and data extraction to analysis.This treatment goes deeper into the nuts and bolts of "doing" sociophonetics, with more hand’s on procedures for the identification, processing and measurement of vowels and sibilantsThis chapter is intended to introduce readers to and provide the work flow for some basic analyses using common software.The survey of key methods and fundamental terms presented in this and the previous chapter provides a foundation for reading and understanding the approaches used in sociophonetic literature and in exploring the research presented in subsequent chapters.

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Sociophoneticsacoustic phoneticsnormalizationvisualizationdata selectionvowel analysissibilant analysis
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Sociophonetics , pp. 40 - 72
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Further Reading

Drager, Katie 2010. Sociophonetic Variation in Speech Perception. Language and Linguistics Compass 4(7): 473–480.Google Scholar
Fabricius, Anne H., Watt, Dominic and Johnson, Daniel Ezra 2009. A Comparison of Three Speaker-Intrinsic Vowel Formant Frequency Normalization Algorithms for Sociophonetics. Language Variation and Change 21(3): 413–435.Google Scholar
Hillenbrand, James, Getty, Laura A., Clark, Michael J. and Wheeler, Kimberlee 1995. Acoustic Characteristics of English Vowels. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 97(5): 3099–3111.Google Scholar
Stuart-Smith, Jane 2007. Empirical Evidence for Gendered Speech Production: /s/ in Glaswegian. In Cole, J. and Hualde, J. (eds.), Laboratory Phonology 9: Phonology and Phonetics. New York: Mouton de Gruyter: 65–86.Google Scholar
Thomas, Erik 2002b. Sociophonetic Applications of Speech Perception Experiments. American Speech 77(2): 115–147.Google Scholar

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