Tracking the New Zealand English NEAR/SQUARE merger using functional principal components analysis

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Tracking the New Zealand English NEAR/SQUARE merger using functional principal components analysis

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Copyright © 2019 ISCA The focus of the study is the application of functional principal components analysis (FPCA) to a sound change in progress in which the SQUARE and NEAR falling diphthongs are merging in New Zealand English. FPCA approximated the trajectory shapes of the first two formant frequencies (F1/F2) in a large acoustic database of read New Zealand English speech spanning three different age groups and two regions. The derived FPCA parameters showed a greater degree of centralisat...

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18 May, 2020

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M Gubian / J Harrington / M Stevens / F Schiel / Paul Warren

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https://figshare.com/articles/conference_contribution/Tracking_the_New_Zealand_English_NEAR_SQUAR...

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Functional Principal Components Analysis / Linguistics

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