A ticklish problem Studying accent variation from speech recordings
semanticscholar(2017)
Abstract
Mr. Tickle has been a well-loved children’s story for almost half a century and has been read countless times since 1971, the year it was first published. In that time the story has remained unchanged, but the telling of it will have sounded different depending on where it was read. From London to Liverpool to Newcastle, the words are the same – but the accent of the reader might vary considerably. The study of dialect variation has a long and interesting history; understanding differences in vocabulary and pronunciation has possible uses in many social sciences, since the way a language is spoken changes according to social status; it is also used to shape group identification. These differences have typically been studied by comparing phonetic transcriptions of the spoken word, rather than the spoken word itself.1 However, with the help of Mr. Tickle and a database of recorded speech, statisticians are developing new methods for analysing accents, allowing for a more realistic and interactive interpretation of the way speech varies across geographic regions.
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