February 2020

The SPADE project team hosted a workshop in Glasgow with team members from two France-based projects, Phonologie de l’Anglais Contemporain (PAC) and Phonologie du Français Contemporain (PFC), on February 20th and 21st, 2020.

The SPADE-related presentations consisted of the project overview The SPADE project: large-scale analysis of a spoken language across space and time, along with Scottish English from a Scottish English from a large corpus perspective and Vowel variation across English dialects.

November 2019

SPADE features in the presentation Large-scale acoustic analysis of word-final /r/ in Scottish English, given at the R-atics conference held at the Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie, UMR7018 – CNRS/Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, Paris, 7th-8th November 2019.

November 2019

The SPADE project features in a Data Management Use Case (DMUC) chapter in the forthcoming Open Handbook of Linguistic Data Management. This volume is to be published by MIT Press Open, and is edited by Andrea Berez-Kroeker, Bradley McDonnell, Eve Koller, and Lauren Collister.

October 2019

SPADE research is featured in the presentation Phonetic Processes behind Canadian Raising of /ai/ in Eastern Ohio given at the New Ways of Analyzing Variation 48 (NWAV48) conference held at the University of Oregon, USA, 10th-12th October, 2019.

September 2019

SPADE features in the presentation The fate of the Scottish Vowel Length Rule in contemporary Scottish English and the poster How consistent is the Voicing Effect across dialects of English? at the 12th UK Language Variation and Change conference held at the Queen Mary University of London (co-hosted with UCL), 3rd-5th September 2019.

SPADE research features in the Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics article Vowel duration and the voicing effect across dialects of English (Volume 41).

August 2019

Three SPADE project papers were given as oral presentations at the 2019 International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2019) held from 5th-9th August 2019 in the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, Australia:

• ISCAN: A system for integrated phonetic analyses across speech corpora
• Age vectors vs. axes of intraspeaker variation in vowel formants measured automatically from several English speech corpora
• Large-scale acoustic analysis of dialectal and social factors in English /s/-retraction

Code and anonymised data for this paper are available at the OSF project here.

March-September 2019

The SPADE project: large-scale analysis of a spoken language across space and time was presented at the Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, École Normale Superieure, Paris (March 2019), the Glasgow University Laboratory of Phonetics, Glasgow University (May 2019), the Language Variation and Change Group, University of Edinburgh (July 2019) and the Language Science Center, University of Maryland (Sep 2019).

ISCAN and Polyglot: software for integrated storage and phonetic analyses of speech datasets was presented in April 2019 at the Cognitive Machine Learning Group, École Normale Superieure, Paris.

June 2019

SPADE features in the poster The fate of the Scottish Vowel Length Rule in contemporary Scottish English presented at the 5th Workshop on Sound Change held at the University of California, Davis, June 21-23 2019.

October 2018

SPADE features in two presentations: Age vectors vs. axes of intraspeaker variation for North American and Scottish English vowel formants and Dialectal and social factors affect the phonetic bases of English /s/-retraction given at the New Ways of Analyzing Variation 47 (NWAV47) conference held at New York University, USA, 18th-21st October 2018.

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