Phonetics and Speech Sciences (말소리와 음성과학)

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An Analysis of the Vowel Formants of the Young versus Old Speakers in the Buckeye Corpus

벅아이 코퍼스에서의 연령별 모음 포먼트 분석

  • Received : 2012.10.09
  • Accepted : 2012.12.10
  • Published : 2012.12.31
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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to measure the first two vowel formants of the forty male and female speakers (twenty young vs. old male speakers and twenty young vs. old female speakers) from the Buckeye Corpus of Conversational Speech and to examine the vowel formant changes across two generations (younger vs. older). The results indicated that the vowel space of the younger generation (in their thirties or less) shifted to the lower left position compared to those of the older generation (in their forties or more) in both male and female speakers. When the results were compared to those of Peterson & Barney (1952), it appears that differences can be found in the size of the vowel spaces through time.

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