Multilevel models for the analysis of linguistic data
Describing the numerous factors that constrain and promote particular aspects of linguistic behaviour in interaction is very difficult. The recent adoption of more advanced quantitative methods has enhanced this modelling, leading to a greater understanding of linguistic patterns. At the same time, the increase in availability of digital recordings and storage capacity for such recordings is leading to increasingly large corpora of complex linguistic data for such investigations. The Sounds of the City corpus is one such example and is the corpus we model throughout this thesis. The corpus is an electronic real-time corpus of Glaswegian vernacular, which consists of a searchable, multi layered database of 58 hours of recordings from 136 speakers, recorded between 1970 and 2010 with orthographic transcripts and automatically phonemically segmented waveforms, amenable to automatic acoustic analyses of durational and resonance characteristics of speech. Vowel formant measurements provide a numeric representation of a spoken vowel and are a commonly used metric to measure linguistic variation and change, with each vowel having multiple formant measures, which correspond to the resonances of the vocal tract. The
Alexander, Craig
PE English ; Q Science (General) ; QA Mathematics
Multilevel models for the analysis of linguistic data. Describing the numerous factors that constrain and promote particular aspects of linguistic behaviour in interaction is very difficult. The recent adoption of more advanced quantitative methods has enhanced this modelling, leading to a greater understanding of linguistic patterns. At the same time, the increase in availability of digital recordings and storage capacity for such recordings is leading to increasingly large corpora of complex linguistic data for such investigations. The Sounds of the City corpus is one such example and is the corpus we model throughout this thesis. The corpus is an electronic real-time corpus of Glaswegian vernacular, which consists of a searchable, multi layered database of 58 hours of recordings from 136 speakers, recorded between 1970 and 2010 with orthographic transcripts and automatically phonemically segmented waveforms, amenable to automatic acoustic analyses of durational and resonance characteristics of speech. Vowel formant measurements provide a numeric representation of a spoken vowel and are a commonly used metric to measure linguistic variation and change, with each vowel having multiple formant measures, which correspond to the resonances of the vocal tract. The
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