layout: true background-image: url(theme/uam_logo.png), url(theme/wa_logo.png) background-position: 45% 92%, 60% 92% background-size: 17%, 5% --- class: clear, center, middle, hide-logo .font200[Prosodic boundary strength and prevocalic T-glottaling in Massachusetts English] .font120[Kamil Kaźmierski<br> Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland] Accents 2023 Łódź:: November 30 - December 2, 2023
[kamil.kazmierski@amu.edu.pl](mailto:kamil.kazmierski@amu.edu.pl) <br>
Slides available at: [kazmierski-accents2023.netlify.app](https://kazmierski-accents2023.netlify.app) --- layout: false # T-glottaling in American English <div class="tabwid"><style>.cl-46afaee6{}.cl-469e746e{font-family:'Arial';font-size:20pt;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.00);background-color:transparent;}.cl-469e748c{font-family:'Arial';font-size:20pt;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.00);background-color:transparent;}.cl-46a5c494{margin:0;text-align:left;border-bottom: 0 solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.00);border-top: 0 solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.00);border-left: 0 solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.00);border-right: 0 solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.00);padding-bottom:5pt;padding-top:5pt;padding-left:5pt;padding-right:5pt;line-height: 1;background-color:transparent;}.cl-46a5edb6{width:1.875in;background-color:transparent;vertical-align: middle;border-bottom: 1.5pt solid rgba(102, 102, 102, 1.00);border-top: 1.5pt solid 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0, 0, 1.00);margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;}.cl-46a5ede9{width:1.968in;background-color:transparent;vertical-align: middle;border-bottom: 1.5pt solid rgba(102, 102, 102, 1.00);border-top: 0.75pt solid rgba(102, 102, 102, 1.00);border-left: 0 solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.00);border-right: 0 solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.00);margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;}.cl-46a5edea{width:5.025in;background-color:transparent;vertical-align: middle;border-bottom: 1.5pt solid rgba(102, 102, 102, 1.00);border-top: 0.75pt solid rgba(102, 102, 102, 1.00);border-left: 0 solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.00);border-right: 0 solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.00);margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;}</style><table data-quarto-disable-processing='true' class='cl-46afaee6'><thead><tr style="overflow-wrap:break-word;"><th class="cl-46a5edb6"><p class="cl-46a5c494"><span class="cl-469e746e">Level</span></p></th><th class="cl-46a5edc0"><p class="cl-46a5c494"><span class="cl-469e746e">Context</span></p></th><th class="cl-46a5edca"><p class="cl-46a5c494"><span class="cl-469e746e">Examples</span></p></th><th class="cl-46a5edcb"><p class="cl-46a5c494"><span class="cl-469e746e">Source</span></p></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr style="overflow-wrap:break-word;"><td rowspan="2"class="cl-46a5edcc"><p class="cl-46a5c494"><span class="cl-469e748c">Within words</span></p></td><td class="cl-46a5edd4"><p class="cl-46a5c494"><span class="cl-469e748c">before nasals</span></p></td><td class="cl-46a5edd5"><p class="cl-46a5c494"><span class="cl-469e748c">portent, kitten</span></p></td><td class="cl-46a5edde"><p class="cl-46a5c494"><span class="cl-469e748c">Trager (1942), Zue & Laferriere (1976)</span></p></td></tr><tr style="overflow-wrap:break-word;"><td class="cl-46a5ede8"><p class="cl-46a5c494"><span class="cl-469e748c">syllable-final</span></p></td><td class="cl-46a5ede9"><p class="cl-46a5c494"><span class="cl-469e748c">cat, sent, belt</span></p></td><td class="cl-46a5edea"><p class="cl-46a5c494"><span class="cl-469e748c">Selkirk (1972)</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div> --- # T-glottaling in American English <div class="tabwid"><style>.cl-46e1efa0{}.cl-46d2c872{font-family:'Arial';font-size:20pt;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.00);background-color:transparent;}.cl-46d2c87c{font-family:'Arial';font-size:20pt;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.00);background-color:transparent;}.cl-46d8637c{margin:0;text-align:left;border-bottom: 0 solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.00);border-top: 0 solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.00);border-left: 0 solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.00);border-right: 0 solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.00);padding-bottom:5pt;padding-top:5pt;padding-left:5pt;padding-right:5pt;line-height: 1;background-color:transparent;}.cl-46d88816{width:1.952in;background-color:transparent;vertical-align: middle;border-bottom: 1.5pt solid rgba(102, 102, 102, 1.00);border-top: 1.5pt 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class="cl-46d2c87c">Trager (1942), Zue & Laferriere (1976)</span></p></td></tr><tr style="overflow-wrap:break-word;"><td class="cl-46d88849"><p class="cl-46d8637c"><span class="cl-46d2c87c">syllable-final</span></p></td><td class="cl-46d88852"><p class="cl-46d8637c"><span class="cl-46d2c87c">cat, sent, belt</span></p></td><td class="cl-46d8885c"><p class="cl-46d8637c"><span class="cl-46d2c87c">Selkirk (1972)</span></p></td></tr><tr style="overflow-wrap:break-word;"><td rowspan="2"class="cl-46d8885d"><p class="cl-46d8637c"><span class="cl-46d2c87c">Across words</span></p></td><td class="cl-46d88849"><p class="cl-46d8637c"><span class="cl-46d2c87c">before sonorants</span></p></td><td class="cl-46d88852"><p class="cl-46d8637c"><span class="cl-46d2c87c">hat rack, about you</span></p></td><td class="cl-46d8885c"><p class="cl-46d8637c"><span class="cl-46d2c87c">Pierrehumbert (1994), Kaźmierski, Wojtkowiak & Baumann (2016)</span></p></td></tr><tr style="overflow-wrap:break-word;"><td class="cl-46d8885e"><p class="cl-46d8637c"><span class="cl-46d2c87c">before plosives</span></p></td><td class="cl-46d88866"><p class="cl-46d8637c"><span class="cl-46d2c87c">beet counter</span></p></td><td class="cl-46d88867"><p class="cl-46d8637c"><span class="cl-46d2c87c">Huffman (2005)</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div> --- # T-glottaling in American English <div class="tabwid"><style>.cl-4714fef4{}.cl-470656ec{font-family:'Arial';font-size:20pt;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.00);background-color:transparent;}.cl-47065700{font-family:'Arial';font-size:20pt;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.00);background-color:transparent;}.cl-47065701{font-family:'Arial';font-size:20pt;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 1.00);background-color:transparent;}.cl-470c4480{margin:0;text-align:left;border-bottom: 0 solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.00);border-top: 0 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solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.00);margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;}.cl-470c7770{width:2.648in;background-color:rgba(35, 118, 106, 1.00);vertical-align: middle;border-bottom: 1.5pt solid rgba(102, 102, 102, 1.00);border-top: 0.75pt solid rgba(102, 102, 102, 1.00);border-left: 0 solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.00);border-right: 0 solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.00);margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;}.cl-470c7771{width:8.406in;background-color:rgba(35, 118, 106, 1.00);vertical-align: middle;border-bottom: 1.5pt solid rgba(102, 102, 102, 1.00);border-top: 0.75pt solid rgba(102, 102, 102, 1.00);border-left: 0 solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.00);border-right: 0 solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.00);margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;}</style><table data-quarto-disable-processing='true' class='cl-4714fef4'><thead><tr style="overflow-wrap:break-word;"><th class="cl-470c7734"><p class="cl-470c4480"><span class="cl-470656ec">Level</span></p></th><th class="cl-470c773e"><p class="cl-470c4480"><span class="cl-470656ec">Context</span></p></th><th class="cl-470c7748"><p class="cl-470c4480"><span class="cl-470656ec">Examples</span></p></th><th class="cl-470c7749"><p class="cl-470c4480"><span class="cl-470656ec">Source</span></p></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr style="overflow-wrap:break-word;"><td rowspan="2"class="cl-470c774a"><p class="cl-470c4480"><span class="cl-47065700">Within words</span></p></td><td class="cl-470c7752"><p class="cl-470c4480"><span class="cl-47065700">before nasals</span></p></td><td class="cl-470c7753"><p class="cl-470c4480"><span class="cl-47065700">portent, kitten</span></p></td><td class="cl-470c7754"><p class="cl-470c4480"><span class="cl-47065700">Trager (1942), Zue & Laferriere (1976)</span></p></td></tr><tr style="overflow-wrap:break-word;"><td class="cl-470c775d"><p class="cl-470c4480"><span class="cl-47065700">syllable-final</span></p></td><td class="cl-470c775e"><p class="cl-470c4480"><span class="cl-47065700">cat, sent, belt</span></p></td><td class="cl-470c7766"><p class="cl-470c4480"><span class="cl-47065700">Selkirk (1972)</span></p></td></tr><tr style="overflow-wrap:break-word;"><td rowspan="3"class="cl-470c7767"><p class="cl-470c4480"><span class="cl-47065700">Across words</span></p></td><td class="cl-470c775d"><p class="cl-470c4480"><span class="cl-47065700">before sonorants</span></p></td><td class="cl-470c775e"><p class="cl-470c4480"><span class="cl-47065700">hat rack, about you</span></p></td><td class="cl-470c7766"><p class="cl-470c4480"><span class="cl-47065700">Pierrehumbert (1994), Kaźmierski, Wojtkowiak & Baumann (2016)</span></p></td></tr><tr style="overflow-wrap:break-word;"><td class="cl-470c775d"><p class="cl-470c4480"><span class="cl-47065700">before plosives</span></p></td><td class="cl-470c775e"><p class="cl-470c4480"><span class="cl-47065700">beet counter</span></p></td><td class="cl-470c7766"><p class="cl-470c4480"><span class="cl-47065700">Huffman (2005)</span></p></td></tr><tr style="overflow-wrap:break-word;"><td class="cl-470c7769"><p class="cl-470c4480"><span class="cl-47065701">before vowels</span></p></td><td class="cl-470c7770"><p class="cl-470c4480"><span class="cl-47065701">what I</span></p></td><td class="cl-470c7771"><p class="cl-470c4480"><span class="cl-47065701">Eddington & Channer (2010), Kaźmierski (2020)</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div> ## Unexpected: Competes with flapping --- class: center, middle, keep-h1-up # Ex. 1: Intervocalic /t/ as a glottal stop <img src="media/spectrograms/what_i_saw_trans.png" width="50%" height="50%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> <audio src="media/audio/s0206a_what_I_saw_80dB.wav" controls preload></audio> --- class: center, middle, keep-h1-up # Ex. 2: Intervocalic /t/ as an 'incomplete' glottal stop <img src="media/spectrograms/get_everywhere_trans.png" width="50%" height="50%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> <audio src="media/audio/get_everywhere_mi6I0_80dB.wav" controls preload></audio> --- # *T*-glottaling; gender by age effect <img src="index_files/figure-html/unnamed-chunk-8-1.png" width="90%" height="90%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> .footnote[.ref[ Kaźmierski, Kamil. 2020. Prevocalic t-glottaling across word boundaries in Midland American English. *Laboratory Phonology* 11(1), 1-23. ] ] --- class: font160 # Method :: Data .fl.w-40[ - Speakers from Massachusetts (*N* = 20) - Interview speech (UMass Amherst lab) - ASR with WebMAUS (LST Radboud University) - aligned with FAVE-Align (.ref[Rosenfelder et al. 2014]) - Audio & TextGrids available at https://osf.io/mfu5y/ ] .fl.w-60[ <img src="media/participants.png" width="110%" height="110%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> ] --- class: font180 # Method :: Analysis - Corpus querying in Labb-CAT <img style="float:left" src="media/labb-cat2.png" /> .ref[(Fromont & Hay 2012)] - **1,652** two word sequences with word-final pre-vocalic .ipa[/t/] - Contexts with word$_2$ starting in .ipa[/ən/] and .ipa[/ɪn/] omitted - Manual annotation of .ipa[/t/] based on audition + spectrograms - Boundaries hand-corrected - Automatic annotation of prosodic boundaries with *wavelet prosody toolkit* (.ref[Suni et al. 2020]) -
Bayesian Mixed-effects Binomial Logistic Regresion Modeling with `brms` .ref[(Bürkner 2017)] in R .ref[(R Core Team 2023)] --- # 1/7: Glottal stop .ipa[[ ʔ ]] .fl.w-30[ .middle[ .font140[ - no release burst - identifiable hold stage - irregular vibration before and/or after ] ] ] .fl.w-70[ .center[ ### 19 yo, Northampton <img src="index_files/figure-html/unnamed-chunk-10-1.png" width="90%" height="90%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> <audio src="media/spectrograms/int_01_about_eight_snippet.wav" controls preload></audio> ] ] --- # 2/7 Incomplete glottal stop .ipa[[ ◌̰ ]] .fl.w-30[ .font140[ - no release burst - irregular vibration throughout ] ] .fl.w-70[ .center[ ### 21 yo, Framingham <img src="index_files/figure-html/unnamed-chunk-11-1.png" width="90%" height="90%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> <audio src="media/spectrograms/int_02_got_out_snippet.wav" controls preload></audio> ] ] --- # 3/7 Glottal reinforcement .ipa[[ ʔ͡t ]] .fl.w-30[ .font140[ - formant movement indicating tongue gesture - release burst - irregular vibration ] ] .fl.w-70[ .center[ ### 19 yo, Northampton <img src="index_files/figure-html/unnamed-chunk-12-1.png" width="90%" height="90%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> <audio src="media/spectrograms/int_01_but_overall.wav" controls preload></audio> ] ] --- # 4/7: Inaudible release .ipa[[ t̚ ]] .fl.w-30[ .font140[ - formant movement indicating tongue gesture - no release burst - no irregular vibration ] ] .fl.w-70[ .center[ ### 29 yo, Worcester <img src="index_files/figure-html/unnamed-chunk-13-1.png" width="90%" height="90%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> <audio src="media/spectrograms/int_04_a_lot_of_snippet.wav" controls preload></audio> ] ] --- # 5/7 Flap .ipa[[ ɾ ]] flap .fl.w-30[ .font140[ - clear auditory impression - hold stage + release - decrease in intensity ] ] .fl.w-70[ .center[ ### 18 yo, West Roxbury <img src="index_files/figure-html/unnamed-chunk-14-1.png" width="90%" height="90%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> <audio src="media/spectrograms/int_03_get_away_snippet.wav" controls preload></audio> ] ] --- # 6/7 'regular' release .ipa[[ t ]] .fl.w-30[ .font140[ - identifiable hold stage - discernible release burst ] ] .fl.w-70[ .center[ ### 21 yo, Worcester <img src="index_files/figure-html/unnamed-chunk-15-1.png" width="90%" height="90%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> <audio src="media/spectrograms/int_20_but_even_snippet.wav" controls preload></audio> ] ] --- # 7/7 Deletion .ipa[[ ∅ ]] .fl.w-30[ .font140[ - no discernible trace of the consonant ] ] .fl.w-70[ .center[ ### 20 yo, Westwood <img src="index_files/figure-html/unnamed-chunk-16-1.png" width="90%" height="90%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> <audio src="media/spectrograms/int_05_a_lot_of_siblings_snippet1.wav" controls preload></audio><audio src="media/spectrograms/int_05_a_lot_of_siblings_snippet2.wav" controls preload></audio> ] ] --- class:center # Wavelet prosody toolkit <img src="media/wavelets.gif" alt="wavelets in action" width="50%" height="50%"> https://github.com/asuni/wavelet_prosody_toolkit --- class: center, middle, inverse # Results --- # Overall distribution of allophones <img src="media/plots/allophones_overall.png" width="85%" height="85%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> --- class: center, middle, inverse .f1[ .ipa[ʔ] and .ipa[◌̰] → .ipa[ʔ] ] -- .f1[ .ipa[ɾ] → .ipa[ɾ] ] -- .f1[ the rest → 🚮 ] -- .f1[ *N* = 1,652 → 1,517 ] --- # Distribution by strength of prosodic boundary .pull-left[ <img src="media/plots/by_boundary_continuous.png" width="100%" height="100%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> ] -- .pull-right[ <img src="media/plots/by_boundary_discrete.png" width="100%" height="100%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> ] --- # Duration of `\(word_1\)` <img src="media/plots/word_duration.png" width="80%" height="80%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> --- # Individual variation <img src="media/plots/by_speaker_binary.png" width="100%" height="100%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> --- class: center, middle, inverse # Modeling results --- # Modeling results :: Average probability of .ipa[ʔ] <img src="media/plots/intercept_probs_big.png" width="75%" height="75%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> Probability of glottaling over flapping, shaded area indicates 95% Credible Interval --- # Modeling results :: Predictors (fixed effects) <img src="media/plots/coefs.png" width="75%" height="75%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> --- # Random forest <img src="media/plots/forest.png" width="75%" height="75%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> --- # Discussion :: Production planning <img src="media/infographic.png" width="90%" height="90%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> --- class: middle, keep-h1-up # Conclusions .font180[ - T-glottaling rate: empirical 32%, fitted: 8%, 95%CrI = [4%, 15%] - Most common realizations: .ipa[[ɾ]] > .ipa[[ʔ]] | .ipa[[ ◌̰ ]] > .ipa[[ ∅ ]] , next to no .ipa[[t]] - More .blue[**prominent boundary**], .blue[**longer first word**], .red[**lower predictability**] are positively associated with probability of t-glottaling - The less likely the two words are to be planned together, the more likely t-glottaling becomes ] --- class: center # Thank you! <img src="media/plots/intercept_probs_small.png" width="30%" height="30%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> .pull-left[ <img src="media/wavelets.gif" alt="wavelets in action" width="60%" height="60%"> ] .pull-right[ <img src="media/plots/coefs.png" width="70%" height="70%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> ] This research was supported by the Polish-American Fulbright Commission
[kamil.kazmierski@amu.edu.pl](mailto:kamil.kazmierski@amu.edu.pl) --- class: center # wavelets :: prosodic vs. syntactic boundaries <img src="index_files/figure-html/unnamed-chunk-28-1.png" width="80%" height="80%" style="display: block; margin: auto;" /> <audio src="media/spectrograms/int_09_zoom_TextGrid__1077_633_1081_483_snippet.wav" controls preload></audio> ??? No automatically detected prosodic boundary at X: "I don't get it X I hate", but there is a syntactic boundary. Maybe glottaling is a more direct reflection of syntax than of prosody? Or maybe the objective, signal derived prosody is not the right approach?