Proceedings

13-16 December 2022, Canberra, Australia

Editor: Rosey Billington

ISSN 2207-1296. Copyright © 2022 ASSTA

The full proceedings can be downloaded below as a single PDF (70MB), and will be available via the ASSTA website after the conference.

Individual papers can be found below, in the order they appear in the programme. Note that this web page with individual papers will not be permanently maintained.

Special Session: Multi-disciplinary approaches to forensic speech science: from different starting points to a shared goal

Mehdinezhad, Hanie, Guillemin, Bernard, & B T, Balamurali. (2022). Addressing sampling-frequency mismatch between speech data sets in a forensic voice comparison. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 11-15). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Rose, Phil. (2022). Likelihood ratio-based forensic semi-automatic speaker identification with alveolar fricative spectra in a real-world case. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 6-10). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Kinoshita, Yuko, & Osanai, Takashi. (2022). Effects of mobile phone transmission on formant measurements: A large-scale examination based on 306 Japanese male speakers. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 1-5). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

TONE

Rose, Phil. (2022). Declination-adjusted normalisation of Cantonese citation tones. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 26-30). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Burroni, Francesco, & Sukanchanon, Teerawee. (2022). Tonal effects on vowel duration in Bangkok Thai. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 21-25). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Stanley, Rael, Tabain, Marija, & Yu, Defen. (2022). Tone and vowel interaction in Northern Lisu. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 16-20). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

MACHINE LEARNING

Gonzalez, Simon. (2022). A machine learning ensemble to automatically classify tongue ultrasound contours based on displacement measurements. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 31-35). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Szalay, Tünde, Shahin, Mostafa, Ahmed, Beena, & Ballard, Kirrie. (2022). Training forced aligners on (mis)matched data: The effect of dialect and age. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 36-40). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Reid, Paul, Gnevsheva, Ksenia, & Suominen, Hanna. (2022). A comparison of machine learning algorithms and human listeners in the identification of phonemic contrasts. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 41-45). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Special Session: Sociophonetic explorations of ethnic and ethnolectal variation

Gibson, Andy, Penney, Joshua, & Cox, Felicity. (2022). Rhoticity and linking-r in Australian English: Associations with community diversity. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 46-50). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Sheard, Elena. (2022). Longevity of an ethnolectal marker in Australian English: Word-final (er) and the Greek-Australian community. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 51-55). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Qiao, Gan, & Travis, Catherine. (2022). Ethnicity and social class in pre-vocalic ‘the’ in Australian English. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 56-60). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Loakes, Debbie, Gregory, Adele, & McDougall, Kirsty. (2022). Variation in /t/ in Aboriginal and Mainstream Australian Englishes. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 61-65). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

VOWELS

Billington, Rosey, Mansfield, John, & Stoakes, Hywel. (2022). Acoustic and durational characteristics of Anindilyakwa vowels. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 66-70). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Li, Shubo. (2022). The vowel inventory of the Kufo language. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 71-75). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Chen, Changhe. (2022). Voice quality of the nasal vowels in Chaoshan Chinese. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 76-80). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

SPEECH PERCEPTION

White, Hannah, Gibson, Andy, Penney, Joshua, Szakay, Anita, & Cox, Felicity. (2022). The influence of pitch and speaker sex on the identification of creaky voice. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 81-85). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Calhoun, Sasha, Warren, Paul, Agnew, Jemima, & Mills, Joy. (2022). Gender attitudes affect the strength of the Frequency Code. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 86-90). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Day, Evie, & Ong, Jia Hoong. (2022). Is there an influence of autistic traits on audio-visual speech & song emotion perception? In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 91-95). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

LIQUIDS

Shields, Isabella, Watson, Catherine, & Keegan, Peter. (2022). Preliminary analysis of /r/ acoustics and features in three Māori speakers. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 96-100). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Gonzalez, Simon, & Docherty, Gerry. (2022). Towards the automatic identification of /l/-vocalisation in English speakers in Australia. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 101-105). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Szalay, Tünde, Benders, Titia, Cox, Felicity, & Proctor, Michael. (2022). Vowel merger in Australian English lateral-final rimes: /Æɔ-æ/. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 106-110). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

HEALTH

Mawalim, Candy Olivia, Titalim, Benita Angela, Unoki, Masashi, & Okada, Shogo. (2022). OBISHI: Objective Binaural Intelligibility Score for the Hearing Impaired. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 111-115). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Stasak, Brian, Epps, Julien, Larsen, Mark, & Christensen, Helen. (2022). A human annotation guide for mental health speech collections. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 116-120). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Stasak, Brian, & Epps, Julien. (2022). Read speech protocol criteria for speech-based health screening applications. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 121-125). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS

Szalay, Tünde, Ratko, Louise, Shahin, Mostafa, Sirojan, Tharmakulasingam, Ballard, Kirrie, Cox, Felicity, & Ahmed, Beena. (2022). A semi-automatic workflow for orthographic transcription of a novel speech corpus: A case study of AusKidTalk. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 126-130). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Shahin, Mostafa, Epps, Julien, & Ahmed, Beena. (2022). Multi-task learning for speech attribute detection of children’s speech. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 131-135). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Clermont, Frantz. (2022). Linear transformation from full-band to sub-band cepstrum. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 136-140). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGES

Panther, Forrest, & Harvey, Mark. (2022). Markedness in Kaytetye reduplication: An information-theoretic analysis. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 141-145). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Bundgaard-Nielsen, Rikke, O’Shannessy, Carmel, Nelson, Alice, Bartlett, Jessie, & Davis, Vanessa. (2022). Warlpiri IDS: Expanding the path to communicative success. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 146-150). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Harvey, Mark, Chen, Juqiang, Carne, Michael, Bundgaard-Nielsen, Rikke, Stockigt, Clara, Simpson, Jane, & Strangways, Sydney. (2022). Apical stops in Arabana: Lenition and undershoot. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 151-155). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

L2 PERCEPTION

Li, Yanping, Best, Catherine, Tyler, Michael, & Burnham, Denis. (2022). L2-Mandarin regional accent variability during lexical tone word training facilities native English listerners’ tone categorization and discrimination. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 156-160). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Wang, Yizhou, Bundgaard-Nielsen, Rikke, Baker, Brett, & Maxwell, Olga. (2022). Accuracy-latency association in discrimination of L2 vowel contrasts. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 161-165). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Bundgaard-Nielsen, Rikke, Baker, Brett, & O’Shannessy, Carmel. (2022). Something borrowed, something new: Acquiring unexploited sets of feature contrasts. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 166-170). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

PRODUCTION & PERCEPTION

Ross, Brooke, Ballard, Elaine, & Watson, Catherine. (2022). Young Aucklanders and New Zealand English vowel shifts. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 186-190). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Dian, Angelo, Hajek, John, & Fletcher, Janet. (2022). Stop (de)gemination in Veneto Italian: The role of durational correlates. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 176-180). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Tsukada, Kimiko, & Hajek, John. (2022). Adaption to L3 Phonology? Perception of the Japanese consonant length contrast by learners of Italian. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 171-175). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

NEW DIRECTIONS

Penney, Joshua, Davies, Ben, & Cox, Felicity. (2022). Assessing the validity of remote recordings captured with a generic smartphone application designed for speech research. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 181-185). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Canaan Zengyu, Lan, Maxwell, Olga, & Diskin-Holdaway, Chloé. (2022). An exploratory investigation of the /e/-/æ/ and /iː/-/ɪ/ mergers and durational contrasts in Singapore English. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 191-195). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Schweinberger, Martin, & Komiya, Yuki. (2022). A corpus-based computational analysis of high-front and -back vowel production of L1-Japanese learners of English and L1-English speakers. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 196-200). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

PROSODY

Fletcher, Janet, Kidd, Evan, Stoakes, Hywel, & Nordlinger, Rachel. (2022). Prosodic phrasing, pitch range, and word order variation in Murrinhpatha. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 201-205). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Tabain, Marija, Kapović, Mate, Gordon, Matthew, Gregory, Adele, & Beare, Richard. (2022). A preliminary study of lexical pitch accents in the Split dialect of Croatian. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 206-210). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Torres, Catalina, & Schnell, Stefan. (2022). A corpus study of word (root) prominence in Vera’a. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 211-215). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

POSTER SESSION PAPERS (for abstracts for other posters see here)

Huang, Yishan. (2022). Duration in Zhangzhou Southern Min: Variation, correlation, and constraint. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 216-220). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Rose, Phil, & Yang, Tianle. (2022). Modeling interaction between tone and phonation type in the Northern Wu dialect of Jinshan. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 221-225). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

Gibb-Reid, Ben, Foulkes, Paul, Hughes, Vincent, & Walker, Traci. (2022). Just listen: Describing phonetic variation in the word just. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 226-230). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]

B T, Balamurali, Hwan Ing, Hee, Ming Ying Lin, Cindy, Priyadarshinee, Prachee, Johann Clarke, Christopher, Herremans, Dorien, & Chen, Jer-Ming. (2022). A Gaussian mixture classifier model to differentiate respiratory symptoms using phonated /ɑ:/ sounds. In Rosey Billington (Ed.), Proceedings of the Eighteenth Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology (pp. 231-235). Australasian Speech Science and Technology Association. [pdf]