Nance, Claire;
Dewhurst, Maya;
Fairclough, Lois;
Forster, Pamela;
Kirkham, Sam;
Nagamine, Takayuki;
Turton, Danielle;
(2023)
Acoustic and articulatory characteristics of rhoticity in the North-West of England.
In:
Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.
(pp. pp. 3572-3576).
International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPS): Prague, Czech Republic.
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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. ‘core’ and ‘caw’. Principal Component Analysis of tongue splines shows that speakers use different tongue shapes in auditorily rhotic tokens.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Acoustic and articulatory characteristics of rhoticity in the North-West of England |
| Event: | The 20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences |
| Location: | Prague |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://icphs2023.confea.net/ |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | rhoticity, ultrasound, acoustics, sociophonetics, language variation and change |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10198628 |
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