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Record W3185405120 · doi:10.22215/etd/2021-14463

English Vowel Duration in Textsetting

2021· dissertation· en· W3185405120 on OpenAlexaff
Nicole Gilroy

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicPhonetics and Phonology Research
Canadian institutionsCarleton University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsVoiceDuration (music)VowelAlternation (linguistics)LinguisticsRhythmVowel lengthStress (linguistics)MathematicsSpeech recognitionPsychologyAcousticsComputer sciencePhysicsPhilosophy

Abstract

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The rhythmic structure in music, referred to as meter, consists of alternating strong and weak beats and higher-level structure.Likewise, in language there is a similar structure: stress is usually an alternation of strong and weak beats, though less regular than in music.In texts that have both linguistic and musical structure, the two rhythms prefer to match but the alignment is not always perfect, though it is systematic: this alignment is regulated by the textsetting grammar.I have investigated one aspect of a textsetting grammar, namely how vowel length differences interact with this system.More specifically, the effects of inherent durations were explored using minimal pairs differing in vowel tenseness, and minimal pairs with word-final /t/ or /d/ were used to probe the effects of voicinginduced allophonic length.This study explores the matching preferences between these linguistic tokens and slots in music which are metrically strong (and also long in duration), and slots which are metrically weak (and also short in duration).These experiments test both metrical structure and duration in music simultaneously and do not distinguish between them.The results show that English speakers prefer to match shorter vowels with short musical notes and longer vowels with long musical notes.The tenseness and allophonic lengthening conditions are both significant, and the participants were more strongly guided by the tenseness of the vowel than the voicing-induced allophonic length.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.003
Threshold uncertainty score0.010

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.368
Teacher spread0.347 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2021
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