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Title: | Norwegian Dialects Examined Perceptually and Acoustically | Contributor(s): | Heeringa, Wilbert (author); Gooskens, Charlotte (author) | Publication Date: | 2003-08 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/30126 | Abstract: | Gooskens (2003) described an experiment which determined linguistic distances between 15 Norwegian dialects as perceived by Norwegian listeners. The results are compared to Levenshtein distances, calculated on the basis of transcriptions (of the words) of the same recordings as used in the perception experiment. The Levenshtein distance is equal to the sum of the weights of the insertions,deletions and substitutions needed to change one pronunciation into another. The success of the method depends on the reliability of the transcriber.The aim of this paper is to find an acoustic distance measure between dialects which approximates perceptual distance measure. We use and compare different representations of the acoustic signal: Barkfilter spectrograms, cochleagrams and formant tracks. We now apply the Levenshtein algorithm to spectra or formant value bundles instead of transcription segments. From these acoustic representations we got the best results using the formant track representation. However the transcription-based Levenshtein distances correlate still more closely. In the acoustic signal the speaker-dependent influence is kept to some extent, while a transcriber abstracts from voice quality. Using more samples per dialect word (instead of only one as in our research) should improve the accuracy of the measurements. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Computers and the Humanities, 37(3), p. 293-315 | Publisher: | Springer Netherlands | Place of Publication: | Netherlands | ISSN: | 1572-8412 0010-4817 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 200310 Other European Languages 200406 Language in Time and Space (incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology) 200405 Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics) |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970120 Expanding Knowledge in Language, Communication and Culture 950201 Communication Across Languages and Culture |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal | Publisher/associated links: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/30204903 |
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Appears in Collections: | Journal Article School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences |
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