phonTools (version 0.2-2.2)

t07: Thomson (2007) Vowel Data

Description

Mean formant frequency information for the vowels of male and female speakers from Edmonton English.

Usage

data (pb52)

Format

A data frame with 1520 observations on the following 9 variables:

vowel

- The vowel category in x-sampa.

gender

- A factor with levels f m representing speaker gender: male and female.

f1

- A numeric vector indcating the vowel F1 in Hz.

f2

- A numeric vector indcating the vowel F2 in Hz.

f3

- A numeric vector indcating the vowel F3 in Hz.

References

Thomson, R. (2007). Modeling L1/L2 interactions in the perception and production of English vowels by Mandarin L1 speakers: A training study. PhD dissertation, University of Alberta.

Examples

#data(t07)
#vowelplot (t07$f1, t07$f2, t07$vowel, logaxes = 'xy', meansOnly = TRUE, 
#xsampa = TRUE)