Vowel normalization: a perceptual-acoustic study of Dutch vowels

In sociolinguistics, language variation in vowel sounds is typically studied using phonetic transcription. Phonetic transcription is carried out by expert listeners, who are capable of perceptually separating (socio-) linguistic variation from anatomical/physiological speaker-related characteristics. However, phonetic transcription is a very laborious task and its reliability is questionable. In phonetics, vowel normalization procedures were designed to separate linguistic variation from anatomical/physiological variation in acoustic measurements. In this thesis, it is evaluated whether vowel... Mehr ...