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An Analysis of the Vowel Formants of the Young Females in the Buckeye Corpus

벅아이 코퍼스에서의 젊은 성인 여성의 모음 포먼트 분석

  • Received : 2012.09.03
  • Accepted : 2012.11.23
  • Published : 2012.12.31
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Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to measure the first two vowel formants of the ten young female speakers from the Buckeye Corpus of Conversational Speech [1] automatically and then to analyze various potential factors that may affect the formant distribution of the eight peripheral vowels of English. The factors that were analyzed included the place of articulation, the content versus function word information, the syllabic stress information, the location in a word, the location in an utterance, the speech rate of the three consecutive words, and the word frequency in the corpus. The results indicate that the overall formant patterns of the female speakers were similar to those of earlier works. The effects of the factors on the realization of the two formants were also similar to those from the male speakers with minor differences.

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