Keywords
representative sampling of Southern U.S. speech, regional & social vowel variation, limits of small-sample generalizations, DASS interview corpus
Abstract
DASS:
- 64 interviews available on a portable USB drive
- 370 hours of sound files--c. 200Gb, about 5000 files in all—plus metadata
- LICHEN user interface software
Why DASS?
- LAGS already widely used in analyses of Southern speech (e.g. Dorrill 2003, Feagin 2003, Schönweitz 2001, and Thomas 2005).
- Thomas (2001) has demonstrated successful acoustic analysis of our old recordings.
- The Atlas web site gets about a million accesses per year in recent years, so it is already a dataset that people want to use
- DASS makes a good sample across the South
Original Publication Citation
William A. Kretzschmar, Joseph A. Stanley, & Katherine Kuiper. “Automated Large-Scale Phonetic Analysis: DASS.” 84th Meeting of the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL84). Charleston, SC. March 8–11, 2017.
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Kretzschmar, William A. Jr.; Stanley, Joseph A.; and Kuiper, Katherine, "Automated Large-Scale Phonetic Analysis: DASS" (2017). Faculty Publications. 7987.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/7987
Document Type
Presentation
Publication Date
2017
Publisher
84th Meeting of the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics
Language
English
College
Humanities
Department
Linguistics