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Acoustic and articulatory characteristics of rhoticity in the North-West of England

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Acoustic and articulatory characteristics of rhoticity in the North-West of England. / Nance, Claire; Wang, Di; Kirkham, Sam et al.
Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences. ed. / Radek Skarnitzl; Jan Volin. Guarant International, 2023. p. 3572-3576 217.

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Nance, C, Wang, D, Kirkham, S, Nagamine, T, Fairclough, L, Dewhurst, M, Turton, D & Forster, P 2023, Acoustic and articulatory characteristics of rhoticity in the North-West of England. in R Skarnitzl & J Volin (eds), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences., 217, Guarant International, pp. 3572-3576. <https://guarant.cz/icphs2023/217.pdf>

APA

Nance, C., Wang, D., Kirkham, S., Nagamine, T., Fairclough, L., Dewhurst, M., Turton, D., & Forster, P. (2023). Acoustic and articulatory characteristics of rhoticity in the North-West of England. In R. Skarnitzl, & J. Volin (Eds.), Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences (pp. 3572-3576). Article 217 Guarant International. https://guarant.cz/icphs2023/217.pdf

Vancouver

Nance C, Wang D, Kirkham S, Nagamine T, Fairclough L, Dewhurst M et al. Acoustic and articulatory characteristics of rhoticity in the North-West of England. In Skarnitzl R, Volin J, editors, Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences. Guarant International. 2023. p. 3572-3576. 217

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Nance, Claire ; Wang, Di ; Kirkham, Sam et al. / Acoustic and articulatory characteristics of rhoticity in the North-West of England. Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of the Phonetic Sciences. editor / Radek Skarnitzl ; Jan Volin. Guarant International, 2023. pp. 3572-3576

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abstract = "We present a sociophonetic, acoustic, and articulatory analysis of coda rhoticity in East Lancashire, North-West England. We analysed data from 24 participants aged 8–73 recorded at a public engagement event in Blackburn Market (598 tokens). Auditory analysis shows coda rhoticity is declining across generations, with speakers born after 1990 being mostly non-rhotic. Audible rhoticity is realised by lowered F3 and raised F2. GAMMs fitted across the vowel(+rhoticity) interval show that audibly rhotic tokens have a significantly smaller distance between F3 and F2 than audibly non-rhotic tokens in all vowel contexts. Our ultrasound analysis compares minimal pairs e.g. {\textquoteleft}core{\textquoteright} and {\textquoteleft}caw{\textquoteright}. Principal Component Analysis of tongue splines shows that speakers use different tongue shapes in auditorily rhotic tokens.",
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