Linguistic and speaker variation in Russian fricatives
9h30-13h
Salle des Colloques - Université Lumière Lyon 2 - 18 Quai Claude Bernard, 69007 Lyon + Visio link below
Soutenance de doctorat de : Natalja ULRICH
Jury:
Jalaleddin Al-Tamimi (rapporteur, Université Paris Cité)
Emmanuel Ferragne (rapporteur, Université Paris Cité)
Martine Grice (examinatrice, University of Cologne)
Christine Meunier (examinatrice, CNRS Aix en Provence)
Marc Allassonnière-Tang (co-directeur, CNRS Paris)
François Pellegrino (co-directeur, CNRS Lyon)
Abstract:
This thesis represents an acoustic-phonetic investigation of phonetic details in Russian fricatives. The main aim was to detect acoustic correlates that carry linguistic and idiosyncratic information. The questions addressed were whether the place of articulation, speakers’ gender and ID can be predicted by a set of acoustic cues and which acoustic measures represent the most reliable indicators. Furthermore, the distribution of speaker-specific characteristics and inter- and intra-speaker variation across acoustic cues were studied in more detail.