fricatives: Catalan and Spanish intervocalic alveolar fricatives.

Description Usage Format References

Description

A dataset containing duration and voicing measures for /s/ from 16 speakers of Spanish and for /s/, /z/, and /S/ (the variant that is neutralized in underlying voicing) for 26 speakers of Catalan. The data are from a corpus of map task interviews in Spanish and Catalan and all fricatives are intervocalic. If you analyze the fricatives dataset in a publication, please cite Hualde and Prieto (2014) from the references section below.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 1622 rows and 6 variables:

dur

The duration of the fricative, as determiend by the onset and offset of aperiodic energy in the acoustic signal (milliseconds).

pvoi

The proportion of the fricative which is voiced (measured including 30 milliseconds of each of the surrounding vowels).

lang

The language of the map task interview (Catalan or Spanish).

wordpos

Position of the fricative in the word (Final, Initial, or Medial).

uvoi

The underlying voicing of the fricative (Neutralized, Voiced, or Voiceless).

speaker

Speaker identifier (s01 through s42).

References

Hualde, J. I., & Prieto, P. (2014). Lenition of intervocalic alveolar fricatives in Catalan and Spanish. Phonetica, 71(2), 109-127.


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