@article{GengTurkScobbieetal.2013, author = {Geng, Christian and Turk, Alice and Scobbie, James M. and Macmartin, Cedric and Hoole, Philip and Richmond, Korin and Wrench, Alan and Pouplier, Marianne and Bard, Ellen Gurman and Campbell, Ziggy and Dickie, Catherine and Dubourg, Eddie and Hardcastle, William and Kainada, Evia and King, Simon and Lickley, Robin and Nakai, Satsuki and Renals, Steve and White, Kevin and Wiegand, Ronny}, title = {Recording speech articulation in dialogue - evaluating a synchronized double electromagnetic articulography setup}, series = {Journal of phonetics}, volume = {41}, journal = {Journal of phonetics}, number = {6}, publisher = {Elsevier}, address = {London}, issn = {0095-4470}, doi = {10.1016/j.wocn.2013.07.002}, pages = {421 -- 431}, year = {2013}, abstract = {We demonstrate the workability of an experimental facility that is geared towards the acquisition of articulatory data from a variety of speech styles common in language use, by means of two synchronized electromagnetic articulography (EMA) devices. This approach synthesizes the advantages of real dialogue settings for speech research with a detailed description of the physiological reality of speech production. We describe the facility's method for acquiring synchronized audio streams of two speakers and the system that enables communication among control room technicians, experimenters and participants. Further, we demonstrate the feasibility of the approach by evaluating problems inherent to this specific setup: The first problem is the accuracy of temporal synchronization of the two EMA machines, the second is the severity of electromagnetic interference between the two machines. Our results suggest that the synchronization method used yields an accuracy of approximately 1 ms. Electromagnetic interference was derived from the complex-valued signal amplitudes. This dependent variable was analyzed as a function of the recording status - i.e. on/off - of the interfering machine's transmitters. The intermachine distance was varied between 1 m and 8.5 m. Results suggest that a distance of approximately 6.5 m is appropriate to achieve data quality comparable to that of single speaker recordings.}, language = {en} } @misc{BrunnerGengSotiropoulouetal.2014, author = {Brunner, Jana and Geng, Christian and Sotiropoulou, Stavroula and Gafos, Adamantios I.}, title = {Timing of German onset and word boundary clusters}, series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, journal = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe}, number = {136}, issn = {1866-8380}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-399178}, pages = {52}, year = {2014}, abstract = {Previous studies suggest that there are special timing relations in syllable onsets. The consonants are assumed to be timed, on the one hand, with the vocalic nucleus and, on the other hand, with each other. These competing timing relations result in the C-center effect. However, the C-center effect has not consistently been found in languages with complex onsets. Moreover, it has occasionally been found in languages disallowing complex onsets. The present study investigates onset timing in German while discussing alternative explanations (not related to bonding) for the timing patterns observed. Six German speakers were recorded via Electromagnetic Articulography. The corpus contained items with four clusters (/sk/, /kv/, /gl/, and /pl/). The clusters occur in word-initial position, word-medial position, and across a word boundary preceding different vowels. The results suggest that segmental properties (i.e., oral-laryngeal coordination, coarticulatory resistance) determine the observed timing patterns, and specifically the absence or presence of the C-center effect.}, language = {en} }