Front Vowels as Speaker-Specific: Some Evidence from Australian English
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This investigation focuses on the degree of speaker-specificity in F2 and F3 of eleven Australian English monophthongs, determined using F-ratios from single-factor ANOVA. Non-contemporaneous samples of spontaneous speech produced by eight male speakers (four twin pairs) of Australian English were analysed, with the results indicating that the front vowels, and close-front vowels in particular, were most speaker-specific. The two most speaker-specific parameters, F2 and F3 of /I/, were then used to compare same and different-speaker pairs, with the result s demonstrating between-speaker variation to be greater than within-speaker variation in the majority of cases.
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تاریخ انتشار 2004