Dear Phonet people,
For an MSc summer dissertation project I am supervising, I'm looking for a
quick-and-dirty acoustic parameter that will distinguish a Scottish
realisation of the vowel of _good_ (conventionally transcribed with IPA
barred U) from a more "Estuary English" - fronter than IPA /u/ and less
rounded - version of the same vowel (for which I would be tempted to use
IPA barred I). I thought that the difference between F3 and F2 might work
(I presume the two would be closer together in barred U than barred I),
but does anyone have any other ideas? I'm looking for a single parameter
that I can correlate with judgements of "Scottishness". (I mean, a single
parameter for this particular vowel quality - I'm looking at other
features of Scottish speech as well measures as well).
Thanks.
Bob Ladd
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