Did you say susi or shushi? measuring the emergence of robust fricative contrasts in English- and Japanese-acquiring children

Holliday, Jeffrey J.; Beckman, Mary E.; Mays, Chanelle

doi:10.21437/interspeech.2010-544

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“…For example, Munson et al (2006) found that male speakers identified by listeners as sounding gay had fronter and narrower =s= production compared to those identified as sounding straight. Additionally, and as central focus to this paper, much of this work has examined gender as a primary axis of variation, demonstrating that women generally show fronter =s= than men (Fuchs & Toda, 2010;Holliday, Beckman, & Mays, 2010;Stevens & Harrington, 2016;Stuart-Smith, 2007;Stuart-Smith et al, 2019).…”

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Contextualizing /s/ retraction: Sibilant variation and change in Washington D.C. African American Language

Gunter¹,

Vaughn

Kendall³

2021

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Recent work has demonstrated an ongoing change across varieties of English in which /s/ retracts before consonants, particularly before /tɹ/ clusters (e.g., Lawrence, 2000; Shapiro, 1995; Stuart-Smith et al., 2019). Much of this work has focused on the social and linguistic distributions of /stɹ/ within single communities, without an examination of the broader sibilant space (e.g., /s/ and /ʃ/). Meanwhile, analyses across multiple corpora have shown that /s/ and /ʃ/ also show within-community variability, beyond /stɹ/ contexts (Stuart-Smith et al., 2019, 2020). Intersecting these approaches, this paper explores sibilant variation and change across /stɹ/, /s/, and /ʃ/ using a corpus of Washington D.C. African American Language (AAL). Results indicate that /stɹ/-retraction is a stable variant in this variety of AAL and /s/ and /ʃ/ show evidence of socially stratified variation and change. Overall, this paper demonstrates the need to examine the sibilant space more holistically when examining changes in /stɹ/.

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Contextualizing /s/ retraction: Sibilant variation and change in Washington D.C. African American Language

Gunter¹,

Vaughn

Kendall³

2021

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“…The tags we developed allow researchers to easily extract target sounds or shorter intervals for spectral analysis (e.g., [40]- [42]) as well as for calculating and comparing transcribed accuracy rates. The technology for tagging child productions and for extracting target sounds for spectral analysis also can be applied to develop more sensitive measures of phonological contrast (e.g., [40], [43]). And the tag sets also can be used to extract stimuli for perception experiments, yielding naivelistener responses of various types, including continuous category-goodness ratings, which can act as an added layer of tags to augment the much more time-consuming symbolic tags that are provided by phonetically-trained transcribers (e.g., [41], [42], [44], [45]).…”

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Enriched technology-enabled annotation and analyses of child speech

Beckman

2013

Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE 2013)

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This paper reviews a range of studies illustrating the ways in which speech technology has enabled richer analyses of corpora of young children's speech and infants' speech-like vocalizations. One set of studies illustrates the use of speech synthesis technology, such as VLAM, an articulatory synthesis system that models the transfer functions of child-or infantproportioned vocal tracts. VLAM has been used to evaluate cross-language differences in the emergence of contrasting vowel categories. Another set of studies illustrates the use of modern corpus development and annotation tools to create and analyze the paidologos corpus, a databse of utterances elicited in a picture-prompted word-repetition task from 2-through 5year-old child speakers of a variety of languages. Flexible, incremental annotation on multiple tiers allows researchers to extract target sounds for spectral analysis as well as for calculating transcribed accuracy rates. Tag sets also can be used to extract stimuli for perception experiments, yielding naive-listener responses that can become another layer of tags.

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Vowel space area in later childhood and adolescence: Effects of age, sex and ease of communication

Pettinato

Tuomainen²,

Granlund³

et al. 2016

Journal of Phonetics

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Did you say susi or shushi? measuring the emergence of robust fricative contrasts in English- and Japanese-acquiring children

Cited by 7 publications

References 11 publications

Contextualizing /s/ retraction: Sibilant variation and change in Washington D.C. African American Language

Contextualizing /s/ retraction: Sibilant variation and change in Washington D.C. African American Language

Enriched technology-enabled annotation and analyses of child speech

Vowel space area in later childhood and adolescence: Effects of age, sex and ease of communication

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