A case study of Portuguese and English bilinguality

Jesus and Shadle (2002)

In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 2002), Volume 4, Denver, USA, pp. 2261-2264.

This study of the acoustic characteristics of European Portuguese and British English fricatives as produced by two bilingual subjects, consisted of time and frequency analysis of words in a carrier sentence. Time - averaged power spectra were calculated and parameterised in order to aid comparisons across speaker, across corpus, and across language, and to gain insight into the production mechanisms underlying the language - specific variations.

JesusShadle2002b.pdf - Paper (Acrobat file)

JesusShadle2002bPoster.pdf - Poster presentation (Acrobat file)

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