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Foreign Accent and Forensic Speaker Identification in Voice Lineups: The Influence of Acoustic Features Based on Prosody
Published on: September 27, 2024
Voice quality in Australian English
Debbie Loakes1, Adele Gregory2
1ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language, Research Hub for Language in Forensic Evidence, School of Languages and Linguistics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia.
Abstract:
This study is an acoustic investigation of voice quality in Australian English. The speech of 33 Indigenous Australians (Aboriginal English speakers) is compared to that of 28 Anglo Australians [Mainstream Australian English (MAE) speakers] from two rural locations in Victoria. Analysis of F0 and H1*-H2* reveals that pitch and voice quality differ significantly for male speakers according to dialect and for female speakers according to location. This study highlights previously undescribed phonetic and sociophonetic variability in voice quality in Australian English.
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