15.1895, Qs: Vowel Speech Corpus; L2 Lexical Attrition

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-15-1895. Tue Jun 22 2004. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 15.1895, Qs: Vowel Speech Corpus; L2 Lexical Attrition

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Date:  Mon, 21 Jun 2004 04:27:08 -0400 (EDT)
From:  Scott Drellishak <sfd at u.washington.edu>
Subject:  Speech Corpus for Neural Network Training

2)
Date:  Mon, 21 Jun 2004 08:22:06 -0400 (EDT)
From:  Mohammad Ghasemi <ghasemu_moh at hotmail.com>
Subject:  L2 lexical attrition

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Mon, 21 Jun 2004 04:27:08 -0400 (EDT)
From:  Scott Drellishak <sfd at u.washington.edu>
Subject:  Speech Corpus for Neural Network Training

I am involved in a research project whose goal is to produce a
software system for the control of electronic devices using continuous
variables extracted from human speech.  Part of this system will be a
neural network that recognizes various vowels and produces tracks of
pitch and formant frequencies.  Training the neural network will
require a large amount of data that we're hoping to get from an
existing corpus, rather than creating it ourselves.

We are looking for a corpus that contains samples of many speakers
producing many vowels (preferably in a less reduced register) that
also contains human-validated pitch and formant (F1, F2, and F3)
tracks and, if possible, bandwidth information.  A corpus that
contains more than just vowels is fine, since we can discard sections
of the samples that do not suit our needs.

If anyone knows of a corpus like this, either freely distributed or
requiring a fee, I would like to know how to get ahold of it.

I will post a summary of the replies that I receive.  Thanks in
advance for your time.

Scott Drellishak
University of Washington
Seattle, WA


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Date:  Mon, 21 Jun 2004 08:22:06 -0400 (EDT)
From:  Mohammad Ghasemi <ghasemu_moh at hotmail.com>
Subject:  L2 lexical attrition

Dear Linguist

I am an EFL graduate student. I have decided to investigate the extent
of L2 lexical attrition in high school students over summer holidays
when they recive no L2 input. As the period of nonuse of/ no exposure
to the L2 is only about 12 weeks, is it possible to consider such a
case as an attrition study? Many thanks in advance.

Mohammad Ghasemi
Isfahan University

Subject-Language: English; Code: ENG

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