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THE NORMALIZATION OF VOWEL FORMANTS -- A CASE STUDY OF CROATIAN AND SERBIAN.
| Title: | THE NORMALIZATION OF VOWEL FORMANTS -- A CASE STUDY OF CROATIAN AND SERBIAN. |
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| Authors: | Bašić, Iva, Varošanec-Škarić, Gordana |
| Source: | Fluminensia; 2023, Vol. 35 Issue 1, p61-81, 21p |
| Subject Terms: | SERBS, VOWELS, VOCAL tract, NATIVE language, CROATS |
| Alternate Title: | NORMALIZACIJA VOKALSKIH FORMANATA U HRVATSKOME I SRPSKOME JEZIKU. (Croatian) |
| Abstract (English): | The aim of this study was to compare the results of a traditional formant analysis of vowels with the results of normalization systems on the example of Croatian and Serbian speech. Male native speakers of Croatian and Serbian were used for this study (N=92). Traditional results of formant analyses express differences among analysed groups of speakers caused by linguistic, sociolinguistic, but also physiological factors. Considering that the values of formant vowels are influenced by many factors, including idiosyncratic physiological characteristics of the vocal tract, normalization approaches remove those variables among speakers that are caused by mutual physiological differences. Therefore, the dialectal, inter-linguistic and/or sociolinguistic differences among speakers whose speech is being analysed are isolated in a scientifically more objective way. The results of this study have shown that formant values are more grouped together and centralized (especially in vowels [a] and [i]), than in non-normalized results within each language individually. This contrastive analysis has shown that in Croatian [i], [o] and [u] are more closed and frontal, the vowel [a] is more closed and back, and the vowel [e] is more open and front, in relation to the vowels in Serbian. This study exemplifies the advantage of normalization systems in the interpretation of acoustic results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Abstract (Croatian): | Svrha je ovoga istraživanja bila usporediti rezultate tradicionalne formantske analize vokala s rezultatima normalizacijskih sustava, na primjeru hrvatskoga i srpskoga govora. Za potrebe rada analizirani su muški izvorni govornici hrvatskoga i srpskoga jezika (N=92). S obzirom na to da na vrijednosti formanata vokala utječu brojni faktori, između kojih i idiosinkratičke fiziološke karakteristike govornika, normalizacijom se uklanja varijabilnost među govornicima uzrokovana njihovom fiziološkom različitošću. Normalizacijom vrijednosti formanata utvrđen je viši stupanj centralizacije svih vokala obaju jezika u usporedbi s ne-normaliziranim vrijednostima formanata, dok je kontrastivna analiza među jezicima ukazala na razlike u obilježjima prednjosti i stražnjosti te otvorenosti i zatvorenosti kod svih vokala. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| ISSN: | 03534642 |
| DOI: | 10.31820/f.35.1.6 |
| Database: | Complementary Index |
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