hillenbrand: Formants in American vowels

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Formants in American vowels

Description

Typical relative frequencies of the first four formants measured in dF units (average spacing between formants, or formant dispersion) above or below schwa based on estimated VTL in American English, from Hillenbrand (1995), who measured F1-F4 in ~1.5K recordings (139 speakers, 12 vowels from each). Audio and formant measurements are freely available online: https://homepages.wmich.edu/~hillenbr/voweldata.html. The dataset below is the result of modeling Hillenbrand's data with brms: mvbind(F1rel, F2rel) ~ vowel + (vowel|speaker). It shows the most credible location of each vowel centroid in the F1Rel-F2Rel space.

Usage

hillenbrand

Format

An object of class data.frame with 12 rows and 5 columns.

Details

A dataframe of 12 observations and 5 columns: "vowel" = vowel (American English), "F1Rel" to "F4Rel" = formant frequencies in dF relative to their neutral, equidistant positions in a perfectly cylindrical vocal tract. See schwa - this is what schwa() returns as $ff_relative_dF

References

Hillenbrand, J., Getty, L. A., Clark, M. J., & Wheeler, K. (1995). Acoustic characteristics of American English vowels. The Journal of the Acoustical society of America, 97(5), 3099-3111.

Examples

plot(hillenbrand$F1Rel, hillenbrand$F2Rel, type = 'n')
text(hillenbrand$F1Rel, hillenbrand$F2Rel, labels = hillenbrand$vowel)

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