(Dis)Similarities between formant charts as global topological objects
Author(s)
Date Issued
2020
Type
article
Volume
32
Issue
2
Start Page
59
End Page
98
Journal
Abstract
This paper describes a topological model to analyze the degree of similarity between formant charts. The formant charts of the stressed vowels of a number of speakers of some dialects and of a number of dialects (computed on the basis of the mean values of F1 and F2 of all speakers of a given dialect) represent the
initial data. The model generates predictions that have been compared and validated by a perceptive discrimination test. This is a pilot study, and its major goal is methodological, rather than heuristic. Further verifications should be implemented on the same model in order to repeat and extend verification on larger
corpora