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KMID : 1022420120040040029
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Phonetics and Speech Sciences
2012 Volume.4 No. 4 p.29 ~ p.35
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An Analysis of the Vowel Formants of the Young versus Old Speakers in the Buckeye Corpus
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Kim Ji-Eun
Yoon Kyu-Chul
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study was to measure the first two vowel formants of the forty male and female speakers (twenty young vs. old male speakers and twenty young vs. old female speakers) from the Buckeye Corpus of Conversational Speech and to examine the vowel formant changes across two generations (younger vs. older). The results indicated that the vowel space of the younger generation (in their thirties or less) shifted to the lower left position compared to those of the older generation (in their forties or more) in both male and female speakers. When the results were compared to those of Peterson &Barney (1952), it appears that differences can be found in the size of the vowel spaces through time.
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KEYWORD
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vowel formants, speakers, young, old, F1, F2, Buckeye Corpus
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