Creak prevalence and prosodic context in Australian English

Hannah White; Joshua Penney; Andy Gibson; Anita Szakay; Felicity Cox

doi:10.21437/Interspeech.2023-1454

Creak prevalence and prosodic context in Australian English

Hannah White, Joshua Penney, Andy Gibson, Anita Szakay, Felicity Cox

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Abstract

Creaky voice has been found to mark phrase-finality in many varieties of English, as well as in other languages. The present study aims to investigate whether this is also true for Australian English (AusE), a variety that is understudied in creaky voice research. Using automatic creak detection methods, the need for manual annotation of creak is reduced, and we are able to analyse a large dataset of Australian teenagers' speech. As in other varieties, creak is found to be a marker of finality in AusE. Additionally, we find that males use higher rates of creaky voice than females, challenging the widely held assumption that creak is a feature of female speech.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	INTERSPEECH 2023
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association
Place of Publication	Baixas, France
Publisher	International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
Pages	112-116
Number of pages	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2023-1454
Publication status	Published - Aug 2023
Event	Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (24th : 2023) - Dublin, Ireland Duration: 20 Aug 2023 → 24 Aug 2023

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH
ISSN (Print)	2308-457X
ISSN (Electronic)	1990-9772

Conference

Conference	Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (24th : 2023)
Country/Territory	Ireland
City	Dublin
Period	20/08/23 → 24/08/23

Keywords

creaky voice
automatic methods
prosodic context
Australian English

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White, H., Penney, J., Gibson, A., Szakay, A., & Cox, F. (2023). Creak prevalence and prosodic context in Australian English. In INTERSPEECH 2023: Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (pp. 112-116). (Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH). International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2023-1454

White, Hannah ; Penney, Joshua ; Gibson, Andy et al. / Creak prevalence and prosodic context in Australian English. INTERSPEECH 2023: Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association. Baixas, France : International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), 2023. pp. 112-116 (Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH).

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White, H, Penney, J , Gibson, A , Szakay, A & Cox, F 2023, Creak prevalence and prosodic context in Australian English. in INTERSPEECH 2023: Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), Baixas, France, pp. 112-116, Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (24th : 2023), Dublin, Ireland, 20/08/23. https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2023-1454

Creak prevalence and prosodic context in Australian English. / White, Hannah; Penney, Joshua ; Gibson, Andy et al.
INTERSPEECH 2023: Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association. Baixas, France: International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), 2023. p. 112-116 (Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH).

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White H, Penney J , Gibson A , Szakay A , Cox F. Creak prevalence and prosodic context in Australian English. In INTERSPEECH 2023: Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association. Baixas, France: International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). 2023. p. 112-116. (Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH). doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2023-1454

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