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KMID : 1022420180100040001
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Phonetics and Speech Sciences
2018 Volume.10 No. 4 p.1 ~ p.10
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The implementation of children’s automated fromant setting by Praat scripting
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Park Ji-Yeon
Seong Cheol-Jae
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Abstract
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This study introduces an automated Praat script allowing optimal formant analysis for children’s vowels. Using Burg’s algorithm in Praat, formants can be extracted by setting the maximum formant value and the number of formants. The optimal formant setting was determined by identifying the two conditions, F1 and F2, with minimum standard deviations. When applying the optimal formant setting determined by the script, the results of normality tests were not significant among all vowels except /e/ for the maximum formant value, and among the vowels /a/, /e/, /i/, /o/, /u/ and /?/ for the number of formants. This indicates that when analyzing the formants of children’s vowel sounds, the unilateral application of a parameter setting (the maximum formant value and the number of formants) to all vowels is problematic. The performance of the optimal formant setting script was evaluated along with 3 different algorithm in order to determine whether it properly extracts formants for children’s vowels. To this end, Korean monophghongs of 6-year-old children were collected and the Praat scripts were applied to the data. Resultant Formant plots and statistical analysis showed that optimum_script and qtone_script, which links to the perceptual unit, performed very well in formant extraction compared to the remaining 2 scripts.
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KEYWORD
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Praat script, monophthongs, optimal formant setting, maximum formant frequency, number of formants
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