Eleanor Chodroff
Biographic Data
| ID | 784846 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eleanor Chodroff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eleanor |
| FAMILY NAME | Chodroff |
| SIGNATURE | CHODROFF E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4549-5919 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Human and Machine Approaches to Primary Language Identification in Four Accents of Nigerian English
This study examined the effectiveness of human and automated approaches in classifying Nigerian English accents. Building on Muhammad-Gombe et al. (2023) , it compared 25 native speaker linguists and 80 native speaker non-linguists of four Nigerian languages (Hausa, Igbo, Kanuri, and Yoruba) in classifying the native language from Nigerian English accents against 13 UK-based phoneticians familiarised with Nigerian English features and an automate…
Phonetic Universals
Understanding the range and limits of crosslinguistic variation stands at the core of linguistic typology and, more broadly, the scientific inquiry of human language. Linguistic typology is concerned with the relevant dimensions along which languages can vary and those along which they remain stable; an overarching goal is to understand the cognitive, physical, social, and historical factors that shape language. Phonetics is no exception to this …
Subsegmental representation in child speech production
Voice onset time (VOT) of aspirated stop consonants is marked by variability and systematicity in adult speech production. The present study investigated variability and systematicity of voiceless aspirated stop VOT from 161 two- to five-year-old talkers of American English and Cantonese. Overall, many aspects of child VOT productions parallel adult patterns, the analysis of which can help inform our understanding of early speech production. For …
Uniformity in phonetic realization
Phonetic realization is highly variable and highly structured within and across talkers. We examine three constraints that could structure the phonetic space of related speech sounds: target, contrast, and pattern uniformity. Target uniformity requires a uniform mapping from distinctive features to their corresponding phonetic targets within a talker, contrast uniformity requires a consistent difference in the phonetic targets that realize featur…
It's alignment all the way down, but not all the way up
Speakers align at many linguistic levels, including the syntactic, lexical, and phonetic levels. As a result, alignment is often treated as a unitary phenomenon, in which evidence of alignment on one feature is cast as alignment of the entire linguistic level. This experiment investigates whether alignment can occur at some levels but not others, and on some features but not others, within a given dialogue. Participants interacted with two experi…
Predictability of stop consonant phonetics across talkers
The present study investigates patterns of covariation among acoustic properties of stop consonants in a large multi-talker corpus of American English connected speech. Relations among talker means for different stops on the same dimension (between-category covariation) were considerably stronger than those for different dimensions of the same stop (within-category covariation). The existence of between-category covariation supports a uniformity …
Structure in talker-specific phonetic realization
Structure in talker-specific phonetic realization
It's alignment all the way down, but not all the way up
Speakers align at many linguistic levels, including the syntactic, lexical, and phonetic levels. As a result, alignment is often treated as a unitary phenomenon, in which evidence of alignment on one feature is cast as alignment of the entire linguistic level. This experiment investigates whether alignment can occur at some levels but not others, and on some features but not others, within a given dialogue. Participants interacted with two experi…
Uniformity in phonetic realization
Phonetic realization is highly variable and highly structured within and across talkers. We examine three constraints that could structure the phonetic space of related speech sounds: target, contrast, and pattern uniformity. Target uniformity requires a uniform mapping from distinctive features to their corresponding phonetic targets within a talker, contrast uniformity requires a consistent difference in the phonetic targets that realize featur…
Structure in talker-specific phonetic realization
Predictability of stop consonant phonetics across talkers
The present study investigates patterns of covariation among acoustic properties of stop consonants in a large multi-talker corpus of American English connected speech. Relations among talker means for different stops on the same dimension (between-category covariation) were considerably stronger than those for different dimensions of the same stop (within-category covariation). The existence of between-category covariation supports a uniformity …
It's alignment all the way down, but not all the way up
Speakers align at many linguistic levels, including the syntactic, lexical, and phonetic levels. As a result, alignment is often treated as a unitary phenomenon, in which evidence of alignment on one feature is cast as alignment of the entire linguistic level. This experiment investigates whether alignment can occur at some levels but not others, and on some features but not others, within a given dialogue. Participants interacted with two experi…
Uniformity in phonetic realization
Phonetic realization is highly variable and highly structured within and across talkers. We examine three constraints that could structure the phonetic space of related speech sounds: target, contrast, and pattern uniformity. Target uniformity requires a uniform mapping from distinctive features to their corresponding phonetic targets within a talker, contrast uniformity requires a consistent difference in the phonetic targets that realize featur…
Subsegmental representation in child speech production
Voice onset time (VOT) of aspirated stop consonants is marked by variability and systematicity in adult speech production. The present study investigated variability and systematicity of voiceless aspirated stop VOT from 161 two- to five-year-old talkers of American English and Cantonese. Overall, many aspects of child VOT productions parallel adult patterns, the analysis of which can help inform our understanding of early speech production. For …
Phonetic Universals
Understanding the range and limits of crosslinguistic variation stands at the core of linguistic typology and, more broadly, the scientific inquiry of human language. Linguistic typology is concerned with the relevant dimensions along which languages can vary and those along which they remain stable; an overarching goal is to understand the cognitive, physical, social, and historical factors that shape language. Phonetics is no exception to this …
Human and Machine Approaches to Primary Language Identification in Four Accents of Nigerian English
This study examined the effectiveness of human and automated approaches in classifying Nigerian English accents. Building on Muhammad-Gombe et al. (2023) , it compared 25 native speaker linguists and 80 native speaker non-linguists of four Nigerian languages (Hausa, Igbo, Kanuri, and Yoruba) in classifying the native language from Nigerian English accents against 13 UK-based phoneticians familiarised with Nigerian English features and an automate…
Phonetics and Phonology Research (7 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Consonant (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Perception (4 works) · Speech recognition (4 works) · Vowel (4 works)