Language Dependency of /s/ Production: Native Dutch Versus Non-Native English.

ABSTRACT: With forensic recordings being collected in multiple languages increasingly often, this study investigates the language dependency of the voiceless alveolar fricative /s/ in speakers of native (L1) Dutch and non-native (L2) English. Due to phonetic similarity between the languages, Dutch learners of English may exhibit language-independent /s/ acoustics, making it an interesting feature for multilingual forensic speaker comparisons (FSCs). However, the findings show that out of the four spectral moments, center of gravity, standard deviation (SD), skewness, and kurtosis, only SD remained stable across the languages; the other measurements were language-dependent. The results were largely independent of the /s/ tokens' contexts, although an interaction between language and con

SUBMITTER: de Boer MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11831863 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature