Using automated acoustic analysis to explore the link between planning and articulation in second language speech production.

ABSTRACT: Speakers learning a second language show systematic differences from native speakers in the retrieval, planning, and articulation of speech. A key challenge in examining the interrelationship between these differences at various stages of production is the need for manual annotation of fine-grained properties of speech. We introduce a new method for automatically analyzing voice onset time (VOT), a key phonetic feature indexing differences in sound systems cross-linguistically. In contrast to previous approaches, our method allows reliable measurement of prevoicing, a dimension of VOT variation used by many languages. Analysis of VOTs, word durations, and reaction times from German-speaking learners of Spanish (Baus et al., 2013) suggest that while there are links between the factors impac

SUBMITTER: Goldrick M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8411898 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature