Estudios de Fonetica Experimental

Visualization tools Melody Combined factors R tool GithubThis paper presents a way to visualize pitch patterns combining acoustic features (F0, intensity or duration) with other variables, like a basic notation on ToBI (Tone and Break Indices) or the projection of acoustic transformations, following MAS (Melodic Analysis of Speech) model.This visualization and the previous data transformation leading to it have been carried out with Oralstats, a tool developed in R that is conceived to merge speech transcriptions with prosodic, linguistic, and other variables.Here, the multiple melodic visualizations available in Oralstats are exemplified with intonational phrases taken from a corpus of YouTubers.The complete interactive dashboard is freely available on Github.

Adrián Nebot

Journal of Experimental Phonetics

Visualizing melody with multiple acoustic and tagging values using the visualization module of the Oralstats tool

使用Oralstats工具的可视化模块通过多个声学和标记值可视化旋律

Dialectal variation Diaphasic variationThis paper reviews previous studies about dialectal variation of rhythm in Spanish and aims to analyse possible differences among Spanish spoken in Andalusia, Madrid, and Galicia.Four of the rhythm metrics present in the literature were used in the analysis.Spontaneous speech, by contrast with reading tasks, did allow us to discriminate among varieties, albeit only in the case of vowel duration measures.Drawing on the different effect of task on the results, two possible conceptions of rhythm are discussed: language rhythm (as a phonological property) and speech rhythm (as a phonetic property).It is argued that so-called rhythm metrics may be more related to the latter or may even reflect phonotactic rather than rhythmic properties.

Mario Casado-Mancebo

José Lahoz-Bengoechea

Métricas del ritmo aplicadas al estudio dialectológico del español

应用于西班牙语方言学研究的节奏度量

This study investigates the effect Arabic has on the pronunciation of French as a foreign language.It contains Acoustic measurements for the duration of graphically geminate consonants pronounced by native speakers of French and Jordanian learners.It includes also the results of perceptive tests.The results show that the target consonants produced by the learners were meaningfully longer than those pronounced by the French speakers.The perceptive tests also confirm that most of the target words were produced with geminate consonants by the learners.The research ends with some practical proposals that hopefully would help learners overcome the interference of gemination from Arabic to French.

Ahmad Nawafleh

L’interférence de la gémination dans la prononciation des étudiants arabophones apprenant le français

阿拉伯语母语学生学习法语时叠音现象的干扰

This paper describes the main phonetic features of an Italian L1 74 y. o. speaker (ESO01) after he endured total laryngectomy in 2015 with the complete removal of vocal folds due to five tumour masses.We offer an acoustic analysis of the spontaneous speech of this target speaker, in order to lay ground to the development of spontaneous speech enhancement and reconstruction algorithms for non-invasive aids.A semi-automatic analysis extracts formants' values (F0, F1, F2, F3) on the midpoint and on 7 time-points, together with other acoustic cues.Our results show that our target speaker presents a low and rough voice, but his vowels are clearly differentiated.Furthermore, we find vocoid and air release to be extremely consistent in his acoustic characteristics during oesophageal phonation.

Chiara Meluzzi

Sonia Cenceschi

Francesco Dani

Alessandro Trivilini

Phonetic characteristics of spontaneous speech in a total laryngectomized Italian speaker: Perspectives for speech enhancement algorithms

全喉切除意大利语者自发语音的语音特征：语音增强算法的前景

This short paper maintains a discussion on the nature of rhotic consonants in two different but genetically related languages (Ukrainian and Russian).The main goal of the paper is carrying out a modern acoustic study about rhotic realizations in the two target languages, as well as putting forward some considerations about a possible sound change.Acoustic analysis is carried out using LPC and FFT measurements in order to capture the difference in rhotic realizations.The results allow for a description of the acoustic properties of the Ukrainian language, and suggest the existence of an ongoing simplification process of rhotic consonants in both languages.

Dmytro Hrytsu

Pavol Jozef

Ukrainian rhotic consonants in comparison to Russian: An acoustic study

乌克兰硬音辅音与俄语的比较：一项声学研究

This paper analyses lenition of lamino-alveolar and apico-alveolar fricative sibilants in Basque in casual conversations between speakers of the variety of Beasain (Central Basque dialect). To describe the phonetic realisation of sibilants, the following measures were used: the proportion of voiced frames, the centre of gravity and relative intensity. Results show that 13% of sibilants can be classified as ‘voiced’ (i.e. they show uninterrupted voicing during the middle 50% of the duration) and another 25% has at least one voiced frame in the middle interval. Several factors were identified as important predictors of voicing: context, speech rate and the presence of the word boundary. It is also shown that voicing lowers the sibilants’ centre of gravity and relative intensity. Finally, the paper discusses potential lexical effects in lenition phenomena.

Dorota Krajewska

Lenition of fricative sibilants in casual conversations in Basque

巴斯克语日常对话中擦音齿龈音的弱化

Este trabajo aporta información sobre algunos cambios suprasegmentales experimentados a lo largo del siglo xx en España en relación con discursos formales políticos e informativos. El corpus consta de 10 fragmentos de audio pertenecientes a los años 30 y 90 del siglo pasado, cuyos intervinientes son relevantes en su ámbito profesional de acción. Teniendo en cuenta su frecuencia en el corpus estudiado, se ha descrito el comportamiento diferencial de la F0 en los contornos entonativos (presencia/ausencia de ascensos entonativos interiores, énfasis tonal final de cada contorno, promedio de F0 de cada contorno entonativo), del promedio de duración de cada grupo entonativo, del promedio de velocidad de habla, del promedio de intensidad y la mayor/menor presencia de vacilaciones de habla. El análisis acústico de los resultados permite apuntar algunas tendencias asociadas a los diferentes periodos estudiados.

Antonio Hidalgo Navarro

Diacronía prosódica del discurso formal en la España del siglo XX

20世纪西班牙正式话语的历时韵律

Este artículo examina los elementos prosódicos que intervienen en la estructuración interna de los discursos monologales (i.e., macroestructura) en dos aspectos principales: la configuración de los paratonos y las señales fonéticas que indican la concatenación de los enunciados. Para alcanzar tal objetivo se analizará el discurso parlamentario español. Nos centraremos en las intervenciones de las sesiones plenarias 246 y 247 del Congreso de los Diputados de la XIV Legislatura, correspondientes al 21 y 22 de marzo de 2023, que contienen la moción de censura que el grupo parlamentario VOX interpuso al presidente del gobierno, con el debate subsiguiente. Se analizarán los elementos comunes y los idiosincráticos en la configuración de la macroestructura textual.

Francisco Javier Perea Siller

Papel de los suprasegmentos en la construcción de la (macro)estructura discursiva

超音段在构建（宏观）话语结构中的作用

The present study investigates variability in the production of Catalan vowels by Barcelona young, middle-aged, and older adults who speak the Central Catalan variety. The degree of exposure to and use of Central Catalan varies among speakers as half of the participants are second-generation and subsequent-generation migrants from other regions of Spain, where the vernacular is Spanish. All speakers have been born, raised, and schooled in Barcelona, and have acquired both Central Catalan and Spanish. Central Catalan possesses two sets of phonemic mid-vowels (/e/–/ε/ and /o/–/ↄ/), unlike Spanish which has a single vowel per set (/e/ and /o/). This study aims to detail the Catalan mid-front and mid-back vowel contrasts used by speakers of different gender, age, language use, and exposure to Catalan from the bilingual speech community of Barcelona.

Zoi Kotsoni

Detailing the impact of social variables on the production of the Catalan mid-vowel contrasts by early Spanish-Catalan bilinguals

早期西班牙语-加泰罗尼亚语双语者加泰罗尼亚语中元音对比产出的社会变量影响详解

La presente investigación describe las variaciones que presenta la frecuencia fundamental (F0) de un acto de habla asertivo cuando expresa emociones (de forma adyacente) como alegría, tristeza y enojo, al igual que la influencia de la edad, el sexo y el nivel de instrucción. Para ello se llevó a cabo una prueba semi-controlada a un total de 18 colaboradores quienes produjeron el mismo enunciado con las tres emociones por estudiar más un enunciado “no marcado”. Los datos se analizaron empleando Praat en su versión 6.1.50 y el sistema de etiquetado Sp_ToBI. Los resultados muestran una variación estadísticamente significativa de la F0 cuando se expresa alegría y enojo, así como la influencia de las variables sexo y nivel de instrucción.

Publication Information	Publisher: Universitat de Barcelona，Publishing cycle: ，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: Yes
Basic data	Year of publication: 2011，Proportion of original research papers: 0.00%，Self Citation Rate:N.A.， Gold OA Rate: 0.00%
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