Using angle calculations to demonstrate vowel shifts: A diachronic investigation of FOOT-fronting in 20th-century RP (UK)
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a) Develop a new ‘centre of gravity’-based normalisation procedure which better enables visual comparisons of vowel formant plots from different sources, and avoids some of the disadvantages of more well-known procedures (Watt and Fabricius 2003). b) Define geometrical measures of the configurational relations between average vowel positions on formant plots to aid the replicable interpretation of diachronic change in vowel systems, in the form of angle and Euclidean distance calculations (Fabricius, forthcoming).
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تاریخ انتشار 2007