@inproceedings{gu-chen-2019-acoustic,
title = "Acoustic Characterization of Singaporean Children`s {E}nglish: Comparisons to {A}merican and {B}ritish Counterparts",
author = "Gu, Yuling and
Chen, Nancy",
editor = "Axelrod, Amittai and
Yang, Diyi and
Cunha, Rossana and
Shaikh, Samira and
Waseem, Zeerak",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2019 Workshop on Widening NLP",
month = aug,
year = "2019",
address = "Florence, Italy",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/W19-3627/",
pages = "83--87",
abstract = "We investigate English pronunciation patterns in Singaporean children in relation to their American and British counterparts by conducting archetypal analysis on selected vowel pairs. Given that Singapore adopts British English as the institutional standard, one might expect Singaporean children to follow British pronunciation patterns, but we observe that Singaporean children also present similar patterns to Americans for TRAP-BATH spilt vowels: (1) British and Singaporean children both produce these vowels with a relatively lowered tongue height. (2) These vowels are more fronted for American and Singaporean children (p {\ensuremath{<}} 0.001). In addition, when comparing /{\ae}/ and /{\ensuremath{\varepsilon}}/ productions, British speakers show the clearest distinction between the two vowels; Singaporean and American speakers exhibit a higher and more fronted tongue position for /{\ae}/ (p {\ensuremath{<}} 0.001), causing /{\ae}/ to be acoustically more similar to /{\ensuremath{\varepsilon}}/."
}
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%T Acoustic Characterization of Singaporean Children‘s English: Comparisons to American and British Counterparts
%A Gu, Yuling
%A Chen, Nancy
%Y Axelrod, Amittai
%Y Yang, Diyi
%Y Cunha, Rossana
%Y Shaikh, Samira
%Y Waseem, Zeerak
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%D 2019
%8 August
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%C Florence, Italy
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%X We investigate English pronunciation patterns in Singaporean children in relation to their American and British counterparts by conducting archetypal analysis on selected vowel pairs. Given that Singapore adopts British English as the institutional standard, one might expect Singaporean children to follow British pronunciation patterns, but we observe that Singaporean children also present similar patterns to Americans for TRAP-BATH spilt vowels: (1) British and Singaporean children both produce these vowels with a relatively lowered tongue height. (2) These vowels are more fronted for American and Singaporean children (p \ensuremath< 0.001). In addition, when comparing /æ/ and /\ensuremathǎrepsilon/ productions, British speakers show the clearest distinction between the two vowels; Singaporean and American speakers exhibit a higher and more fronted tongue position for /æ/ (p \ensuremath< 0.001), causing /æ/ to be acoustically more similar to /\ensuremathǎrepsilon/.
%U https://aclanthology.org/W19-3627/
%P 83-87
Markdown (Informal)
[Acoustic Characterization of Singaporean Children’s English: Comparisons to American and British Counterparts](https://aclanthology.org/W19-3627/) (Gu & Chen, WiNLP 2019)
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