Gerald J Docherty
Biographic Data
| ID | 737246 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerald J Docherty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerald J |
| FAMILY NAME | Docherty |
| SIGNATURE | DOCHERTY G J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3908-9834 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 185 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
It’s a Bit Tricky, Isn’t It?”—An Acoustic Study of Contextual Variation in /ɪ/ in the Conversational Speech of Young People from Perth
This study presents an acoustic analysis of vowel realisations in contexts where, in Australian English, a historical contrast between unstressed /ɪ/ and /ə/ has largely diminished in favour of a central schwa-like variant. The study is motivated by indications that there is greater complexity in this area of vowel variation than has been conventionally set out in the existing literature, and our goal is to shed new light by studying a dataset of…
Elections 2023
A 3-way tie in 20 th position led to 22 names emerging from the ballot.In line with precedents set in 2011 and 2015, the IPA Executive Council agreed to appoint 22 Councillors at Stage 1 and to amend the stage 2 ballot to focus on the election of a further 8 Councillors
Student Awards for ICPhS 2023
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IPA General Meeting 2023
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Th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
in Prague.This was the second time that ICPhS has been held in Prague, the first being the 6 th Congress in 1967.The 20 th Congress was chaired by Radek Skarnitzl who was assisted by the Scientific Program Committee (Tom Boril, Katka Chldkov, Jon Podlipsk, and Jan Voln) and a team of
Voice onset time and beyond
we have compiled eleven studies investigating the voicing contrast in 19 languages. The collection provides extensive data obtained from 270 speakers across those languages, examining VOT and other acoustic, aerodynamic and articulatory measures. The languages studied may be divided into four groups: 'aspirating' languages with a two-way contrast (English, three varieties of German); 'true voicing' languages with a two-way contrast (Russian, Turk…
Three steps forward for predictability. Consideration of methodological robustness, indexical and prosodic factors, and replication in the laboratory
There is now abundant evidence that phonetic forms are shaped by probabilistic effects reflecting predictability or informativity . We outline a number of challenges for such work, where theoretical claims are often based on small differences in acoustic measurements, or interpretations of small statistical effect sizes. We outline caveats about the methods and assumptions encountered in many studies of predictability effects, particularly regard…
Urban Voices
Accents and dialects are constantly undergoing small variations over time, but evidence shows that change may have become increasingly rapid in the past few decades. 'Urban Voices' presents one of the few recent surveys of this phonological variation and change in urban accents across Great Britain and Ireland.Each of the specially commissioned chapters is divided into two parts. The first provides a detailed description of accent features within…
An evaluation of usage-based approaches to the modelling of sociophonetic variability
Listener evaluation of sociophonetic variability
This paper reports the results of an experimental study designed to investigate how listeners learn to create new associations between phonetic properties of the speech signal and external social referents. Very little is known of how this learning takes place in children, and it is a particularly challenging area to study given the difficulty in controlling some of the variables which are likely to be important factors in children's learning of …
The social life of phonetics and phonology
Phonological Variation in Child-Directed Speech
Segmental features of child-directed speech (CDS) were studied in a corpus drawn from thirtynine mothers living in Tyneside, England. Focus was on the phonetic variants used for (t) in word-medial and word-final prevocalic contexts since it is known that these variants display clear sociolinguistic patterning in the adult community. Variant usage in CDS was found to differ markedly from that in interadult speech. Effects were also found with resp…
Commentary on papers by Remez, Goldinger/Azuma and Local
Another chapter in the story of /r
In this article we trace the history of [bnu;]‐like variants of British English /r/. Although [bnu;] has generally been dismissed as an infantilism, or indicative of affected or disordered speech, it seems to have become established as an accent feature of non‐standard south‐eastern accents. We present tentative evidence to suggest this may be related to the presence of similar variants in the London East End Jewish community. After summarising p…
Descriptive adequacy in phonology
This paper offers a variationist critique of aspects of phonological theory and method, focusing on advances in descriptive methods and highlighting the problems that need to be addressed in explaining phonological variation. On the one hand, socially situated language samples which have been systematically collected and analysed constitute a legitimate – indeed often vital – source of evidence to be utilised by linguists for assessing and refini…
The Timing of Voicing in British English Obstruents
Speech Production and Speech Modelling
The social life of phonetics and phonology
Descriptive adequacy in phonology
This paper offers a variationist critique of aspects of phonological theory and method, focusing on advances in descriptive methods and highlighting the problems that need to be addressed in explaining phonological variation. On the one hand, socially situated language samples which have been systematically collected and analysed constitute a legitimate – indeed often vital – source of evidence to be utilised by linguists for assessing and refini…
Phonological Variation in Child-Directed Speech
Segmental features of child-directed speech (CDS) were studied in a corpus drawn from thirtynine mothers living in Tyneside, England. Focus was on the phonetic variants used for (t) in word-medial and word-final prevocalic contexts since it is known that these variants display clear sociolinguistic patterning in the adult community. Variant usage in CDS was found to differ markedly from that in interadult speech. Effects were also found with resp…
Another chapter in the story of /r
In this article we trace the history of [bnu;]‐like variants of British English /r/. Although [bnu;] has generally been dismissed as an infantilism, or indicative of affected or disordered speech, it seems to have become established as an accent feature of non‐standard south‐eastern accents. We present tentative evidence to suggest this may be related to the presence of similar variants in the London East End Jewish community. After summarising p…
Voice onset time and beyond
we have compiled eleven studies investigating the voicing contrast in 19 languages. The collection provides extensive data obtained from 270 speakers across those languages, examining VOT and other acoustic, aerodynamic and articulatory measures. The languages studied may be divided into four groups: 'aspirating' languages with a two-way contrast (English, three varieties of German); 'true voicing' languages with a two-way contrast (Russian, Turk…
An evaluation of usage-based approaches to the modelling of sociophonetic variability
Listener evaluation of sociophonetic variability
This paper reports the results of an experimental study designed to investigate how listeners learn to create new associations between phonetic properties of the speech signal and external social referents. Very little is known of how this learning takes place in children, and it is a particularly challenging area to study given the difficulty in controlling some of the variables which are likely to be important factors in children's learning of …
The Timing of Voicing in British English Obstruents
Speech Production and Speech Modelling
Descriptive adequacy in phonology
This paper offers a variationist critique of aspects of phonological theory and method, focusing on advances in descriptive methods and highlighting the problems that need to be addressed in explaining phonological variation. On the one hand, socially situated language samples which have been systematically collected and analysed constitute a legitimate – indeed often vital – source of evidence to be utilised by linguists for assessing and refini…
Another chapter in the story of /r
In this article we trace the history of [bnu;]‐like variants of British English /r/. Although [bnu;] has generally been dismissed as an infantilism, or indicative of affected or disordered speech, it seems to have become established as an accent feature of non‐standard south‐eastern accents. We present tentative evidence to suggest this may be related to the presence of similar variants in the London East End Jewish community. After summarising p…
Commentary on papers by Remez, Goldinger/Azuma and Local
Phonological Variation in Child-Directed Speech
Segmental features of child-directed speech (CDS) were studied in a corpus drawn from thirtynine mothers living in Tyneside, England. Focus was on the phonetic variants used for (t) in word-medial and word-final prevocalic contexts since it is known that these variants display clear sociolinguistic patterning in the adult community. Variant usage in CDS was found to differ markedly from that in interadult speech. Effects were also found with resp…
The social life of phonetics and phonology
Listener evaluation of sociophonetic variability
This paper reports the results of an experimental study designed to investigate how listeners learn to create new associations between phonetic properties of the speech signal and external social referents. Very little is known of how this learning takes place in children, and it is a particularly challenging area to study given the difficulty in controlling some of the variables which are likely to be important factors in children's learning of …
Urban Voices
Accents and dialects are constantly undergoing small variations over time, but evidence shows that change may have become increasingly rapid in the past few decades. 'Urban Voices' presents one of the few recent surveys of this phonological variation and change in urban accents across Great Britain and Ireland.Each of the specially commissioned chapters is divided into two parts. The first provides a detailed description of accent features within…
An evaluation of usage-based approaches to the modelling of sociophonetic variability
Three steps forward for predictability. Consideration of methodological robustness, indexical and prosodic factors, and replication in the laboratory
There is now abundant evidence that phonetic forms are shaped by probabilistic effects reflecting predictability or informativity . We outline a number of challenges for such work, where theoretical claims are often based on small differences in acoustic measurements, or interpretations of small statistical effect sizes. We outline caveats about the methods and assumptions encountered in many studies of predictability effects, particularly regard…
Student Awards for ICPhS 2019
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Elections 2019
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Th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences
in Prague.This was the second time that ICPhS has been held in Prague, the first being the 6 th Congress in 1967.The 20 th Congress was chaired by Radek Skarnitzl who was assisted by the Scientific Program Committee (Tom Boril, Katka Chldkov, Jon Podlipsk, and Jan Voln) and a team of
Voice onset time and beyond
we have compiled eleven studies investigating the voicing contrast in 19 languages. The collection provides extensive data obtained from 270 speakers across those languages, examining VOT and other acoustic, aerodynamic and articulatory measures. The languages studied may be divided into four groups: 'aspirating' languages with a two-way contrast (English, three varieties of German); 'true voicing' languages with a two-way contrast (Russian, Turk…
Elections 2023
A 3-way tie in 20 th position led to 22 names emerging from the ballot.In line with precedents set in 2011 and 2015, the IPA Executive Council agreed to appoint 22 Councillors at Stage 1 and to amend the stage 2 ballot to focus on the election of a further 8 Councillors
Student Awards for ICPhS 2023
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IPA General Meeting 2023
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It’s a Bit Tricky, Isn’t It?”—An Acoustic Study of Contextual Variation in /ɪ/ in the Conversational Speech of Young People from Perth
This study presents an acoustic analysis of vowel realisations in contexts where, in Australian English, a historical contrast between unstressed /ɪ/ and /ə/ has largely diminished in favour of a central schwa-like variant. The study is motivated by indications that there is greater complexity in this area of vowel variation than has been conventionally set out in the existing literature, and our goal is to shed new light by studying a dataset of…
Computer Science (16 works) · Phonetics and Phonology Research (13 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (12 works) · Linguistics (11 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Mathematics (8 works) · Action (physics (6 works) · Content (measure theory (6 works) · Indexicality (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works)