Francis Nolan
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Francis J. Nolan is Professor of Phonetics at the University of Cambridge. Between 1993 and 1995 he was Secretary of the International Phonetic Association, and from 1999 to 2003 its Vice-President. He specialises in phonetics and phonology as well as in forensic linguistics. He is currently President of the British Association of Academic Phoneticians. He was one of the co-editors of the 1999 Handbook of the International Phonetic Association, the other being John Esling. He co-designed the language of Parseltongue featured in the Harry Potter films.
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- Q uantitative Characterizations of Speech Rhythm: Syllable-Timing in Singapore English (2000) (533)
- Intonational equivalence : an experimental evaluation of pitch scales (2003) (188)
- Pitch accent realization in four varieties of British English (2000) (179)
- Gesture, Segment, Prosody: The descriptive role of segments: evidence from assimilation (1992) (179)
- The Phonetic Bases of Speaker Recognition (1983) (156)
- The Pairwise Variability Index and Coexisting Rhythms in Language (2009) (117)
- The phonetic bases of speaker recognition : Cambridge Studies in Speech Science and Communication, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1983, 221 pp. ISBN 0-521-24486-2 (1987) (112)
- Prosody, phonology and parsing in closure ambiguities (1995) (106)
- Speech rhythm: a metaphor? (2014) (86)
- The DyViS database: style-controlled recordings of 100 homogeneous speakers for forensic phonetic research (2009) (85)
- A case for formant analysis in forensic speaker identification (2005) (77)
- The Phonetic Bases of Speaker Recognition by Francis Nolan (1985) (73)
- IVie - a comparative transcription system for intonational variation in English (1998) (71)
- DISCRIMINATION OF SPEAKERS USING THE FORMANT DYNAMICS OF /uː/ in BRITISH ENGLISH (2007) (62)
- A video-fluorographic investigation of tip and blade alve-olars in english (1977) (59)
- Phonology and Phonetic Evidence: The influence of syntactic structure on [s] to [∫] assimilation (1995) (53)
- Modelling [s] to [∫] accommodation in English (1996) (52)
- A Forensic Phonetic Study of 'Dynamic' Sources of Variability in Speech: The DyViS Project (2006) (44)
- Identical twins, different voices (2013) (44)
- The origins of coarticulation (1997) (43)
- The effect of pitch span on intonational plateaux (2006) (43)
- Speaker verification with elicited speaking styles in the VeriVox project (2000) (41)
- A recent voice parade (2003) (37)
- The UK position statement on forensic speaker comparison; a rejoinder to Rose and Morrison (2010) (36)
- Estonian and English rhythm: a two-dimensional quantification based on syllables and feet (2006) (35)
- Coarticulation: The origin of coarticulation (1999) (32)
- F0 STATISTICS FOR 100 YOUNG MALE SPEAKERS OF STANDARD SOUTHERN BRITISH ENGLISH (2007) (29)
- Estonian rhythm and the Pairwise Variability Index (2005) (29)
- Intonation in speaker identification: an experiment on pitch alignment features (2002) (28)
- The IViE Corpus (2014) (28)
- An approach to the problem of regional accent in automatic speech recognition (1989) (27)
- ASPIRATION AND VOICING OF CHINESE AND ENGLISH PLOSIVES (2007) (26)
- THE SPEAKER DISCRIMINATING POWER OF SOUNDS UNDERGOING HISTORICAL CHANGE: A FORMANT-BASED STUDY (2007) (24)
- The Analysis of Low Accentuation in Estonian (2007) (19)
- Acoustic and perceptual effects of telephone transmission on vowel quality. (2009) (18)
- The Limitations of Auditory-Phonetic Speaker Identification (1990) (18)
- Preparing a voice lineup (2013) (18)
- TIMING OF F0 PEAKS AND PEAK LAG (1999) (18)
- The ?telephone effect? on formants: a response (2002) (17)
- Phonological Structure and Phonetic Form: Phonetic correlates of syllable affiliation (1994) (16)
- The ‘telephone effect’ on formants: a response (2002) (16)
- Lexical stress estimation and phonological knowledge (1990) (16)
- Some Acoustic Correlates of Perceived (Dis)Similarity between Same-accent Voices (2011) (15)
- Sound Change and Speaker Identity: An Acoustic Study (2007) (15)
- Degrees of freedom in speech production: an argument for native speakers in LADO (2012) (14)
- The role of segments and prosody in the identification of a speaker's dialect (2018) (13)
- Prosodic Marking of Narrow Focus in Seoul Korean (2017) (12)
- The role of pitch and timing cues in the perception of phrasal grouping in Seoul Korean. (2013) (11)
- Within-speaker variability due to speaking manners (1998) (11)
- The role of Action Theory in the description of speech production (1982) (10)
- Resolving category ambiguities - evidence from stress shift (1994) (10)
- Segmentation of the Accentual Phrase in Seoul Korean (2010) (9)
- THE EFFECT OF INTONATION ON PITCH CUES TO THE ESTONIAN QUANTITY CONTRAST (1999) (8)
- AN ACOUSTIC STUDY OF NORTH WELSH VOICELESS FRICATIVES (2007) (8)
- Effects of the telephone on perceived voice similarity: implications for voice line-ups (2013) (8)
- Telephone Transmission and Earwitnesses: Performance on Voice Parades Controlled for Voice Similarity (2015) (7)
- Some acoustic effects of speaking style on utterances for automatic speaker verification (1999) (7)
- Voice lineups: A practical guide (2015) (6)
- Variation in the intonation of sentential adverbs in English and Catalan (2007) (6)
- VOICE QUALITY AND FORENSIC SPEAKER IDENTIFICATION (2007) (6)
- Who do phoneticians represent (1990) (5)
- Post-lexical and prosodic phonological processing (1995) (4)
- An acoustic study of the Estonian Swedish lateral (ɬ) (2014) (4)
- Categorising [s], [∫] and intermediate electropalatographic patterns: neural networks and other approaches (1995) (4)
- It's not phonetic aesthetics that drives dialect preference: The case of Swiss German (2015) (4)
- Exploring the relationship between voice similarity estimates by listeners and by an automatic speaker recognition system incorporating phonetic features (2020) (4)
- On an application of phonological knowledge in automatic speech recognition (1991) (4)
- Phonology and Phonetic Evidence: The role of the jaw — active or passive? Comments on Lee (1995) (4)
- A comparative study of Estonian Swedish voiceless laterals: Are voiceless approximants fricatives? (2015) (3)
- Sampling the progression of domain-initial denasalization in Seoul Korean (2020) (3)
- Categorising [s], [integral of] and intermediate electropalatographic patterns: neural networks and other approaches. (1995) (3)
- Vowel Characteristics in the Assessment of L2 English Pronunciation (2016) (3)
- Foreword to Vol. 25: 1 (1995) (3)
- Categories and gradience in intonation: A functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging study. (2015) (3)
- Articulation Rate as a Metric in Spoken Language Assessment (2019) (2)
- Automated assessment of non-native speech using vowel formant features (2015) (2)
- Connected speech processes in Cambridge English: an evaluative experiment (1994) (2)
- The effect of speakers' regional varieties on listeners' decision-making (2015) (2)
- Categories and gradience in intonation (2015) (2)
- Identifying a speaker's regional origin:the role of temporal information (2016) (1)
- Perceptual clustering of high-pitched vowels in Chinese Yue Opera (2022) (1)
- Acoustic cues to syntactic structure - evidence from prosodic and segmental effects (1993) (1)
- Categories and gradience in intonation: evidence from linguistics and neurobiology (2009) (1)
- Vowel and consonant identification at high pitch: The acoustics of soprano unintelligibility (2015) (1)
- 2.2 Vowels (1988) (1)
- John Layer, The phonetic description of voice quality . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. ix+ 186. (1982) (1)
- Phonetic feature definitions: Their integration into phonology and their relation to speech. A case study of the feature NASAL: Pieter van Reenen, Foris Publications, Dordrecht (Holland), 1982. xii + 196 pp (1984) (1)
- The influence of body posture on the acoustic speech signal (2015) (1)
- Duration as a focus-marking device in Cantonese (2020) (1)
- Speech Research (1981) (1)
- Categories and gradience in intonation : An fMRI study (2011) (1)
- Do listeners rely on dynamic spectral properties in the recognition of high-pitched vowels? (2019) (0)
- Accents as honest signals of in-group membership (2021) (0)
- Within speaker variation due to induced stress (2007) (0)
- Individual speaker characteristics of creaky phonation : a comparative study of English and Urdu (2014) (0)
- Alan Cruttenden, Intonation . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xiv + 214. (1987) (0)
- Intonational equivalence : an exp pitch scale (2003) (0)
- Victoria A. Fromkin (ed.), Errors in linguistic performance: slips of the tongue, ear, pen, and hand. New York and London: Academic Press, 1980. Pp. x + 334. (1982) (0)
- Linguistic versus personal variation in speech recognition (1987) (0)
- Detecting Sarcastic and Complimentary Exclamations in English with Intonation patterns and Acoustic Features: A Case Study (2019) (0)
- F0 Statistics for Spontaneous British English (2007) (0)
- Voice parade parameters: Investigating the effect of parade size and voice sample duration on earwitness identification accuracy. (2021) (0)
- The Right Edge of the IP in Cantonese Focus Perception (2021) (0)
- EXPRESS: Identifying unfamiliar voices: examining the system variables of sample duration and parade size. (2023) (0)
- Intelligibility in Chinese English Spoken in Central China (2019) (0)
- Disentangling the contribution of pitch and duration cues in first and second language perception of the Mandarin neutral tone (2015) (0)
- The nature of speech (1986) (0)
- Rhythm in Estonian Swedish (2016) (0)
- PHONETICS IN THE NEXT TEN YEARS (2019) (0)
- A comparison of the contour alignment of nuclear and initial prenuclear accents was carried out for the Irish dialects of Gaoth Dobhair in Ulster (GD-U) and Cois (2005) (0)
- Forensic phonetics and speaker characteristics (2015) (0)
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