eprintid: 10204993
rev_number: 7
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datestamp: 2025-02-19 08:26:27
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creators_name: Strycharczuk, Patrycja
creators_name: Kirkham, Sam
creators_name: Gorman, Emily
creators_name: Nagamine, Takayuki
title: Dimensionality reduction in lingual articulation of vowels: Evidence from lax vowels in Northern Anglo-English
ispublished: inpress
divisions: UCL
divisions: B02
divisions: C07
divisions: D05
divisions: F73
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.
date: 2025-04-01
date_type: published
publisher: SAGE Publications
official_url: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/LAS
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 2362857
lyricists_name: Nagamine, Takayuki
lyricists_id: NTAKA32
actors_name: Nagamine, Takayuki
actors_id: NTAKA32
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Language and Speech
issn: 0023-8309
citation:        Strycharczuk, Patrycja;    Kirkham, Sam;    Gorman, Emily;    Nagamine, Takayuki;      (2025)    Dimensionality reduction in lingual articulation of vowels: Evidence from lax vowels in Northern Anglo-English.                   Language and Speech           (In press).    Green open access   
 
document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10204993/1/strycharczuk-etal2025.pdf