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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Hello,<BR>
Given the topic of this discussion, I thought I would take the opportunity to ask a related question. My colleague and I at Rutgers University are working on a project analyzing the acoustics of children’s speech in different discourse contexts. We are interested in talking with anyone else who has experience measuring formant values in children’s speech. We have very clear measures for F0, vowel intensity, vowel duration, and consonants, but are finding that it’s a little challenging to obtain just the right settings for F1 and F2. The children are 3-5 years of age. We used an Edirol recorder and have been using Praat for acoustic analysis.<BR>
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If you have any advice or relevant references to share, please email me directly at <a href="k-syrett@ruccs.rutgers.edu">k-syrett@ruccs.rutgers.edu</a>. I will post a summary of responses I receive using the group email afterwards.<BR>
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Thank you,<BR>
Kristen Syrett<BR>
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Rutgers University<BR>
Department of Psychology and Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science<BR>
<a href="http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/~k-syrett/">http://ruccs.rutgers.edu/~k-syrett/</a><BR>
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<HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="95%"><B>From: </B>leah gedalyovich <<a href="leah.gedalyovich@gmail.com">leah.gedalyovich@gmail.com</a>><BR>
<B>Reply-To: </B><<a href="info-childes@googlegroups.com">info-childes@googlegroups.com</a>><BR>
<B>Date: </B>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:19:58 +0300<BR>
<B>To: </B><<a href="info-childes@googlegroups.com">info-childes@googlegroups.com</a>><BR>
<B>Subject: </B>Re: Digest for <a href="info-childes@googlegroups.com">info-childes@googlegroups.com</a> - 3 Messages in 1 Topic,<BR>
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Dear all <BR>
We are looking at doing acoustic analyses of the children's recording so were planning to go for a head microphone in order to get more accurate measures, e.g. of loudness. Any comments?<BR>
Thanx<BR>
Leah Gedalyovich<BR>
Hedim Audiological Services<BR>
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On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Brian MacWhinney <<a href="macw@cmu.edu">macw@cmu.edu</a>> wrote:<BR>
</SPAN></FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'>Dear Diane,<BR>
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Are you setting the option on the Edirol to record in high quality CD format? If not, that could make<BR>
a big difference. GIven that the RRUS-570 only records in MP3, it would be remarkable for it to be better<BR>
than the Edirol in full CD format.<BR>
Also, I would second Gary's note that the Zoom H2 has very confusing buttons and controls.<BR>
In that regard, the Edirol R-09 (the model I have and which I recommend at <a href="http://talkbank.org/da/record.html">http://talkbank.org/da/record.html</a>)<BR>
is much better. Also, as I note at that page, the BossMicro gets good reviews, but I haven't tested it out myself<BR>
yet.<BR>
In general, because we continually have discussion of these issues, I try to keep the information at<BR>
<a href="http://talkbank.org/da/record.html">http://talkbank.org/da/record.html</a> accurate. So far, I haven't found anything in the discussion here so far to change<BR>
what I have there, but this stuff is tricky and I can't test out every possible device.<BR>
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--Brian MacWhinney<BR>
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