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Relative frequency of phonemes

2019-03-20
2019-03-20
  • Michal Hudec

    Michal Hudec - 2019-03-20

    Hi, I'm a Uni student and I'm doing my research on different English accents (mainly around British Isles). I could find relative frequencies of phonemes in RP and GA but I would like to find out the distribution of phonemes in other accents as well. I was hoping I could do it by changing the formulas of those done in RP and GA.

    Is there a way how to do it using your software? Let's say I want to know the text frequency of individual phonemes in scouse.

    Thanks guys,

    Mike

    Here is the formula:

    AA ɑː
    AA0 ɑː
    AA1 ɑː
    AA2 ɑː
    AE æ
    AE0 æ
    AE1 æ
    AE2 æ
    AH ə
    AH0 ə
    AH1 ʌ
    AH2 ʌ
    AO ɔː
    AO0 ɔː
    AO1 ɔː
    AO2 ɔː
    AW aʊ
    AW0 aʊ
    AW1 aʊ
    AW2 aʊ
    AY aɪ
    AY0 aɪ
    AY1 aɪ
    AY2 aɪ
    B b
    CH ʧ
    D d
    DH ð
    EH ɛ
    EH0 ɛ
    EH1 ɛ
    EH2 ɛ
    ER ɚ
    ER0 ɝ
    ER1 ɝ
    ER2 ɝ
    EY eɪ
    EY0 eɪ
    EY1 eɪ
    EY2 eɪ
    F f
    G ɡ
    HH h
    IH ɪ
    IH0 ɪ
    IH1 ɪ
    IH2 ɪ
    IY iː
    IY0 iː
    IY1 iː
    IY2 iː
    JH ʤ
    K k
    L l
    M m
    N n
    NG ŋ
    OW oʊ
    OW0 oʊ
    OW1 oʊ
    OW2 oʊ
    OY ɔɪ
    OY0 ɔɪ
    OY1 ɔɪ
    OY2 ɔɪ
    P p
    R r
    S s
    SH ʃ
    T t
    TH θ
    UH ʊ
    UH0 ʊ
    UH1 ʊ
    UH2 ʊ
    UW uː
    UW0 uː
    UW1 uː
    UW2 uː
    V v
    W w
    Y j
    Z z
    ZH ʒ

     
    • Nickolay V. Shmyrev

      You can do it with a simple Python script given you have the dictionaries for the accents you need. We do not have them. You might check http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/unisyn/.

       

      Last edit: Nickolay V. Shmyrev 2019-03-20

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