Duration and speech rate of phonic groups as a potential distinctive mark of speakers

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  • Adrián Cabedo Nebot Universitat de València
  • Elena López-Navarro Vidal Universitat de València

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https://doi.org/10.7203/qfilologia.19.5190

Abstract

Speaker comparison is a complex task from any of the perspectives in which analysis is performed (Phonetics, Grammar, Pragmatics…). The main complication lies in the establishment of discriminatory criteria to identify a set of features as belonging to individual variation (McMenamin, 1993). This paper analyzes the duration and speech rate of phonic groups as possible elements characterizing speakers. Specifically, the length and speech rate of these units are expected to be objetivable items for discriminating speech from different speakers.

The aim, thus, is considering the feasibility of speaker comparison from a view different from the usual trend in forensic phonetics, which focuses on acoustic factors, such as F0 and formant features (Nolan, 1983).

Keywords: duration; speech rate; forensic science; phonic group.

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Adrián Cabedo Nebot, Universitat de València

Department of Spanish Studies

Elena López-Navarro Vidal, Universitat de València

Department of Spanish Studies

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Published

2014-12-20

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Cabedo Nebot, A., & López-Navarro Vidal, E. (2014). Duration and speech rate of phonic groups as a potential distinctive mark of speakers. Quaderns De Filologia - Estudis Lingüístics, 19, 135–149. https://doi.org/10.7203/qfilologia.19.5190
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Vol. 19 (2014): PHONETICS AS AN INTERDISCIPLINARY FIELD

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