论文信息 - An acoustic analysis of voice quality in London English: The effect of gender, ethnicity and f0

An acoustic analysis of voice quality in London English: The effect of gender, ethnicity and f0

This study investigates voice quality in London English, using acoustic features such as harmonic structure (H1-H2) and fundamental frequency (f0). We compare the speech of 28 Inner London Hackney speakers of Anglo and non-Anglo background with the speech of 14 Outer London Anglo speakers from Havering. The results reveal that voice quality and pitch significantly differ between the two locations, where Inner London speech is lower in pitch, yet more breathy in voice quality. This suggests that the H1-H2 measure is not necessarily dependent on global f0 values.

Anita Szakay | Eivind Torgersen | Eivind Torgersen | Anita Szakay

[1] Adrian P. Simpson,et al. The first and second harmonics should not be used to measure breathiness in male and female voices , 2012, J. Phonetics.

[2] Jenny Cheshire,et al. Was/were variation: A perspective from London , 2009, Language Variation and Change.

[3] Jenny Cheshire,et al. Contact, the feature pool and the speech community: The emergence of Multicultural London English , 2011 .

[4] P. Kerswill,et al. Reversing “drift”: Innovation and diffusion in the London diphthong system , 2008, Language Variation and Change.

[5] Anita Szakay,et al. Voice quality as a marker of ethnicity in New Zealand: From acoustics to perception† , 2012 .

[6] Eivind Nessa Torgersen,et al. An investigation of speech rhythm in London English , 2012 .

[7] S. Hoffmann,et al. A Corpus-Based Sociolinguistic Study of Indefinite Article Forms in London English , 2010 .

[8] Costas Gabrielatos,et al. A corpus-based study of pragmatic markers in London English , 2011 .