An integrated dialect analysis tool using phonetics and acoustics.
Abstract This study aimed to verify a computational phonetic and acoustic analysis tool created in the MATLAB environment. A dataset was obtained containing 3 broad American dialects (Northern, Western and New England) from the TIMIT database using words that also appeared in the Swadesh list. Each...
| Publicado en: | Lingua Vol. 221; pp. 37 - 49 |
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Elsevier B.V.
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