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Overview
Phonetic Analysis of Speech Corpora introduces methods of analyzing phonetically labeled speech corpora, with the goal of testing hypotheses that often arise in experimental phonetics and laboratory phonology. The book begins by discussing some of the techniques in digital speech processing and in structuring and querying annotations from speech corpora. The second half of the book focuses on analysis, including measuring gestural synchronization using electromagnetic articulometry (EMA), the acoustics of vowels, consonant overlap using electropalatography (EPG), spectral analysis of fricatives and obstruents, and the probabilistic classification of acoustic speech data.
Each chapter has an extensive set of exercises, with answers to reinforce the techniques introduced. An overview of the necessary software tools, including the R programming language, enables the reader to duplicate the stages of analysis computationally. Clearly laid out, with easy-to-follow computer commands, spectrograms of speech corpora, and a companion website with more illustrations and downloadable speech corpora for testing purposes, this book is a complete resource for the research increasingly conducted in phonetics.
Synopsis
The Phonetic Analysis of Speech Corpora introduces methods of analyzing phonetically-labelled speech corpora, with the goal of testing hypotheses that often arise in experimental phonetics and laboratory phonology. The book begins by discussing some of the techniques in digital speech processing and in structuring and querying annotations from speech corpora. The second half of the book focuses on analysis, including measuring gestural synchronization using electromagnetic articulometry (EMA), the acoustics of vowels, consonant overlap using electropalatography (EPG), spectral analysis of fricatives and obstruents, and the probabilistic classification of acoustic speech data.
Each chapter has an extensive set of exercises, with answers to reinforce the techniques introduced. An overview of the necessary software tools, including the R programming language, enables the reader to duplicate the stages of analysis computationally. Clearly laid out, with easy-to-follow computer commands, spectrograms of speech corpora, and a companion website with more illustrations and downloadable speech corpora for testing purposes, this book is a complete resource for the research increasingly conducted in phonetics.
Editorials
From the Publisher
"The book undoubtedly succeeds entirely in its goal to provide an accessible and effective practical introduction to using Emu speech database system and Emu-R functions to analyze phonetic data. It is written in a clear and accessible language and the topics are introduced in a coherent and easy to follow manner with the complexity of the material gradually increasing from the beginning towards the end of the book. Even rather complicated concepts are made easy to understand with an exceptional use of analogy and a commendable restraint from going into too many mathematical and technical details...this is a well-written, well-structured, easy-to-follow workbook which boasts an excellent set of practical exercises and demonstrations and covers a wide range of techniques. Overall, those readers who have a basic background in phonetics and statistics and are prepared to work their way carefully through this book will be greatly rewarded with its informativeness and effectiveness." (LINGUIST List, January 2011)