KoreanSpeech: Korean Speech Data
In MPsychoR: Modern Psychometrics with R

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This dataset represents a subset of the data collected in an experiment on the phonetic profile of Korean formality by Winter and Grawunder (2012). The authors were interested in pitch changes between two different attitudes (formal vs. informal).

1	data("KoreanSpeech")

A data frame with 6 individuals (14 measurements per person) and the following variables:

subject: Subject ID
gender: Gender
scenario: 7 interaction types ("making an appointment", "asking for a favor", "apologizing for coming too late", etc.)
attitude: Formality: formal vs. informal.
frequency: Pitch frequency in Hz

Winter, B. (2013). Linear models and linear mixed effects models in R with linguistic applications. arXiv:1308.5499. (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1308.5499.pdf

Winter, B., & Grawunder, S. (2012) The phonetic profile of Korean formality. Journal of Phonetics, 40, 808-815.

1 2	data("KoreanSpeech") str(KoreanSpeech)

sh: 1: cannot create /dev/null: Permission denied
'data.frame':	84 obs. of  5 variables:
 $ subject  : Factor w/ 6 levels "F1","F2","F3",..: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
 $ gender   : Factor w/ 2 levels "F","M": 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
 $ scenario : int  1 1 2 2 3 3 4 4 5 5 ...
 $ attitude : Factor w/ 2 levels "inf","pol": 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 ...
 $ frequency: num  213 204 285 260 204 ...