tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2382369381372118960.post7543651804414433119..comments2024-01-08T18:25:51.974+00:00Comments on Kraut's English phonetic blog: OED transcriptions - examples (1) - weakforms cont'dKrauthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11932831673529849848noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2382369381372118960.post-60550416575968331512015-12-23T13:15:42.981+00:002015-12-23T13:15:42.981+00:00Catherine Sangster, Head of Pronunciation at OED, ...Catherine Sangster, Head of Pronunciation at OED, writes: "Although it is possible to create sound files from transcriptions by synthesis, we preferred to make more natural-sounding recordings with human speakers." The quote is to be found here: http://public.oed.com/the-oed-today/recent-updates-to-the-oed/december-2015-update/release-notes-audio-pronunciations-in-oed-online.Krauthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11932831673529849848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2382369381372118960.post-86756156706639983232015-12-22T16:41:04.226+00:002015-12-22T16:41:04.226+00:00The requirement to read IPA must mean they shouldn...The requirement to read IPA must mean they shouldn't be doing their own accents. It Would be easier to use synthetic speech. There's a long tradition of giving GA STRUT as schwa. But, like RP and Home Counties SBE, there's been a sound change there too. The Peterson & Barney (1952) data show both unshifted and shifted examples, but the averages for F1 (men, women and children) are well above 600Hz, so most were [a]-like STRUT. In your sound clip I thought the BE version was [mɑst] (i.e. a quantity contrast "must-mast"), a variant in RP and Home Counties SBE. The GA "must" sounded like [mast]. Looking at the spectrogram, the GA "must" had F1 around 900 Hz at first, presumably nasalized, then above 700Hz, and F2 1280Hz, so definitely [a]-like STRUT. Sidney Woodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01138711082469220983noreply@blogger.com