15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS-15)

Barcelona, Spain
August 3-9, 2003


Acoustic Study of the Vowel Formant Frequencies and F0: A Contribution to Catalan Forensic Phonetics

Jordi Cicres Bosch

University of Girona, Spain

Fundamental frequency and the frequencies of the F1, F2 and F3 formants of all Catalan vowels have been acoustically measured in a reading-speech corpus of 10 speakers. Several phonological aspects such as stress, context and phrasal intonation have been taken into account. The data was processed using statistical tests (MANOVA) and post-hoc comparisons to evaluate the intra-speaker and inter-speaker variation, and significant differences between speakers, place and manner of articulation. Also, most speaker-specific parameters have been identified. In addition, the value of the results for the forensic phonetics is discussed.

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Bibliographic reference.  Cicres Bosch, Jordi (2003): "Acoustic study of the vowel formant frequencies and F0: a contribution to Catalan forensic phonetics", In ICPhS-15, 687-690.