Determining native language background from English vowels and obstruents

Author(s):
Wang, H.; Heuven, V.J.J.P. van
Editor(s):
Xhafa, F.; Patnaik, S.; Tavana, M.
Published
2019
Publication type
Article in monograph or in proceedings

Abstract

Identifying speakers by their spoken output is a specialist task for forensic investigators. In the present study we focused on cross-linguistic speaker (Chinese, English, Dutch) identification based on (components of) English stops and fricatives, /p, b, t, d, k, g/ and the fricatives /f, v, θ, ð, s, z, ʃ, ʒ/. English noise bursts’ contribution to native language identification is presented and the special tokens which contribute the most were analyzed.

Forensic phoneticsNative Language IdentificationStopsFricativesNoise Burst
Date issued
2019-01-17
Language
English
Publisher
Cham: Springer
Is part of
Advances in Intelligent, Interactive Systems and Applications (2019), Pt. 885, p. 454-461
hdl
1887/82650
doi
10.1007/978-3-030-02804-6_60