search

orianakc / dissertation

Source files for dissertation-related scripts
0 stars 0 forks source link

[q] and [dx] not from /t/ #4

Open msonderegger opened 9 years ago

msonderegger commented 9 years ago

(reposting something here that Oriana sent in an email)

Also -- some glottal stops and flaps come from sources other than /t/, of course. 
What do you think would be a good way to separate them out? 
Maybe use orthography to get underlying form from a pronunciation dictionary? 
Then I would really need to figure out the issue with word/phone alignment.
msonderegger commented 9 years ago

Good point. Yes, I think you'll need to use the orthography to get the(/an) underlying form from a pronunciation dictionary. Syllabified CMU might work, e.g. : http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~kondrak/cmudict/cmudict.rep

(note that this dict shows underlying /t/ -- no flaps -- which is nice)

you'll probably need to do this anyway to figure out the places where flapping could occur, based on the orthographic transcript. Then, you use the STP transcription to see if flapping actually did occur.

Perhaps to make your life easier, you should just focus on [dx] and [t] in a first pass -- that is, don't worry about glottal stops.