ATS1338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Voiceprint Records, Christopher Pyne, The Sounds
9 Aug 2018
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Forensic phonetics - an application of phonetic knowledge. Later work (after horvath) has included ethnolects. English varieties of australian born speakers from migrant communities. Features of broad, general and cultivated accents in australian english. Cultivated and broad are rare in contemporary australia. Change driven by what is seen as prestigious. 50 years of change in the voices of prime ministers. Comparison of different speakers saying the same phrase trying to identify which state of australia they came from. Mitchell & delbridge based their transcription suggestions on received pronunciation. Phonetic values in australian speech are rather different. E. g. vowel in who"d [u] is in rp but is a high central vowel [u] (with strikethrough) for most australian speakers. Various proposals for more accurate transcription systems. Best currently is harrington, cox and evans. The relationship between form ( significant ) and meaning ( signifie ) is arbitrary. Principle usually is that all components can be identified as recurring meaningful elements.
