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Dimensionality reduction in lingual articulation of vowels: Evidence from lax vowels in Northern Anglo-English

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Dimensionality reduction in lingual articulation of vowels: Evidence from lax vowels in Northern Anglo-English. / Strycharczuk, Patrycja; Kirkham, Sam; Gorman, Emily et al.
In: Language and Speech, 24.01.2025.

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Strycharczuk, P, Kirkham, S, Gorman, E & Nagamine, T 2025, 'Dimensionality reduction in lingual articulation of vowels: Evidence from lax vowels in Northern Anglo-English', Language and Speech.

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Strycharczuk, P., Kirkham, S., Gorman, E., & Nagamine, T. (in press). Dimensionality reduction in lingual articulation of vowels: Evidence from lax vowels in Northern Anglo-English. Language and Speech.

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Strycharczuk P, Kirkham S, Gorman E, Nagamine T. Dimensionality reduction in lingual articulation of vowels: Evidence from lax vowels in Northern Anglo-English. Language and Speech. 2025 Jan 24.

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Strycharczuk, Patrycja ; Kirkham, Sam ; Gorman, Emily et al. / Dimensionality reduction in lingual articulation of vowels : Evidence from lax vowels in Northern Anglo-English. In: Language and Speech. 2025.

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title = "Dimensionality reduction in lingual articulation of vowels: Evidence from lax vowels in Northern Anglo-English",
abstract = "There is a long-standing debate on the relevant articulatory dimensions for describing vowel production. In the absence of a theoretical or methodological consensus, different articulatory studies of vowels rely on different measures, which leads to lack of comparability between different sets of results. This paper addresses the problem of how to parametrise the tongue measurements relevant to vowels, obtained from midsagittal articulatory imaging. We focus on the lax vowels subsystem in Northern Anglo-English. A range of measures quantifying tongue position, height and shape are extracted from an ultrasound dataset representing 40 speakers. These measures are compared, based on how well they capture the lingual contrast between different vowels, how stable they are across different speakers, and how intercorrelated they are. The results suggest that different measures are preferred for different vowels, which supports a multi-dimensional approach in quantifying vowel articulation.",
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TY - JOUR

T1 - Dimensionality reduction in lingual articulation of vowels

T2 - Evidence from lax vowels in Northern Anglo-English

AU - Strycharczuk, Patrycja

AU - Kirkham, Sam

AU - Gorman, Emily

AU - Nagamine, Takayuki

PY - 2025/1/24

Y1 - 2025/1/24

N2 - There is a long-standing debate on the relevant articulatory dimensions for describing vowel production. In the absence of a theoretical or methodological consensus, different articulatory studies of vowels rely on different measures, which leads to lack of comparability between different sets of results. This paper addresses the problem of how to parametrise the tongue measurements relevant to vowels, obtained from midsagittal articulatory imaging. We focus on the lax vowels subsystem in Northern Anglo-English. A range of measures quantifying tongue position, height and shape are extracted from an ultrasound dataset representing 40 speakers. These measures are compared, based on how well they capture the lingual contrast between different vowels, how stable they are across different speakers, and how intercorrelated they are. The results suggest that different measures are preferred for different vowels, which supports a multi-dimensional approach in quantifying vowel articulation.

AB - There is a long-standing debate on the relevant articulatory dimensions for describing vowel production. In the absence of a theoretical or methodological consensus, different articulatory studies of vowels rely on different measures, which leads to lack of comparability between different sets of results. This paper addresses the problem of how to parametrise the tongue measurements relevant to vowels, obtained from midsagittal articulatory imaging. We focus on the lax vowels subsystem in Northern Anglo-English. A range of measures quantifying tongue position, height and shape are extracted from an ultrasound dataset representing 40 speakers. These measures are compared, based on how well they capture the lingual contrast between different vowels, how stable they are across different speakers, and how intercorrelated they are. The results suggest that different measures are preferred for different vowels, which supports a multi-dimensional approach in quantifying vowel articulation.

M3 - Journal article

JO - Language and Speech

JF - Language and Speech

SN - 0023-8309

ER -