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Chenyu LI

PhD student, Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle, Université Paris Cité

Codings in the Master thesis

Praat scripts

Here are Praat scripts which can do the extractions of the diphthongs and their acoustic data.

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Étape 1

Script étape 1.

Étape 2

For the estimation of F0, we use a double estimation with auto-correlation(Al-Tamimi&Khattab,2015;Al-Tamimi,2017;Al-Tamimi&Khattab,2018).

References :

Al-Tamimi, J., & Khattab, G. (2015). “Acoustic cue weighting in the singleton vs geminate contrast in Lebanese Arabic: The case of fricative consonants”. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 138(1), 344–360. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4922514

Al-Tamimi J. (2017). “Revisiting acoustic correlates of pharyngealization in Jordanian and Moroccan Arabic: Implications for formal representations”. Laboratory Phonology: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology, 8(1): 1-40. http://doi.org/10.5334/labphon.19

Al-Tamimi, J. and Khattab, G., (2018). Acoustic correlates of the voicing contrast in Lebanese Arabic singleton and geminate stops. Invited manuscript for the special issue of Journal of Phonetics, “Marking 50 Years of Research on Voice Onset Time and the Voicing Contrast in the World’s Languages” (eds., T. Cho, G. Docherty & D. Whalen).” Vol: 71, pp. 306-325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2018.09.010

Script étape 2 /ai/.

Script étape 2 /au/.

Script étape 2 /ei/.

Script étape 2 /ou/.

Modelling with GAMMs

After the data processing by praat, we made a multi-dimensional modelling with GAMMs (Generalised Additive Mixed Models).

R notebook.