2015
Vowel variability in elicited versus spontaneous speech: Evidence from Mixtec
DiCanio C, Nam H, Amith J, García R, Whalen D. Vowel variability in elicited versus spontaneous speech: Evidence from Mixtec. Journal Of Phonetics 2015, 48: 45-59. DOI: 10.1016/j.wocn.2014.10.003.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSpontaneous speechElicited speechEndangered languagesVowel dispersionSpeech styleNarrative speechInfluence of speech styleShorter vowel durationsSpontaneous narrative speechVowel variabilityPhonetic differencesVowel systemOral vowelsPhonetic dataVowel durationVowel spaceContextual assimilationVowel acousticsMale speakersDuration differencesFemale speakersStylistic differencesAcoustic differencesVowelsSpeakers
2013
Using automatic alignment to analyze endangered language data: Testing the viability of untrained alignment
DiCanio C, Nam H, Whalen D, Bunnell H, Amith J, García R. Using automatic alignment to analyze endangered language data: Testing the viability of untrained alignment. The Journal Of The Acoustical Society Of America 2013, 134: 2235-2246. PMID: 23967953, PMCID: PMC5392066, DOI: 10.1121/1.4816491.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPhonetic analysisLanguage dataForced alignmentPhone setDocument endangered languagesSpeech processing toolsEndangered languagesCorpus dataTarget languageTraining languageSmall corpusLanguageCorpusDocument corpusAutomatic alignmentProcess of segmentationSegmentation taskAlignment systemAllophonesEnglishSpeechMixtecData setsProcessing toolsContextual