Statistics in Phonetics

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Main Authors: Tavakoli, Shahin, Matteo, Beatrice, Pigoli, Davide, Chodroff, Eleanor, Coleman, John, Gubian, Michele, Renwick, Margaret E. L., Sonderegger, Morgan
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Published: 2024
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author Tavakoli, Shahin
Matteo, Beatrice
Pigoli, Davide
Chodroff, Eleanor
Coleman, John
Gubian, Michele
Renwick, Margaret E. L.
Sonderegger, Morgan
author_facet Tavakoli, Shahin
Matteo, Beatrice
Pigoli, Davide
Chodroff, Eleanor
Coleman, John
Gubian, Michele
Renwick, Margaret E. L.
Sonderegger, Morgan
contents Phonetics is the scientific field concerned with the study of how speech is produced, heard and perceived. It abounds with data, such as acoustic speech recordings, neuroimaging data, or articulatory data. In this paper, we provide an introduction to different areas of phonetics (acoustic phonetics, sociophonetics, speech perception, articulatory phonetics, speech inversion, sound change, and speech technology), an overview of the statistical methods for analyzing their data, and an introduction to the signal processing methods commonly applied to speech recordings. A major transition in the statistical modeling of phonetic data has been the shift from fixed effects to random effects regression models, the modeling of curve data (for instance via GAMMs or FDA methods), and the use of Bayesian methods. This shift has been driven in part by the increased focus on large speech corpora in phonetics, which has been driven by machine learning methods such as forced alignment. We conclude by identifying opportunities for future research.
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spellingShingle Statistics in Phonetics
Tavakoli, Shahin
Matteo, Beatrice
Pigoli, Davide
Chodroff, Eleanor
Coleman, John
Gubian, Michele
Renwick, Margaret E. L.
Sonderegger, Morgan
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Phonetics is the scientific field concerned with the study of how speech is produced, heard and perceived. It abounds with data, such as acoustic speech recordings, neuroimaging data, or articulatory data. In this paper, we provide an introduction to different areas of phonetics (acoustic phonetics, sociophonetics, speech perception, articulatory phonetics, speech inversion, sound change, and speech technology), an overview of the statistical methods for analyzing their data, and an introduction to the signal processing methods commonly applied to speech recordings. A major transition in the statistical modeling of phonetic data has been the shift from fixed effects to random effects regression models, the modeling of curve data (for instance via GAMMs or FDA methods), and the use of Bayesian methods. This shift has been driven in part by the increased focus on large speech corpora in phonetics, which has been driven by machine learning methods such as forced alignment. We conclude by identifying opportunities for future research.
title Statistics in Phonetics
topic Applications
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07567