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Vowel System Sandbox: Complex System Modelling of Language Change Cover

Vowel System Sandbox: Complex System Modelling of Language Change

By: Sean A. Fulop and  Hannah Scott  
Open Access
|Mar 2019

Figures & Tables

Figure 1

Action of a single time step.

Figure 2

The full IPA chart. Axis labels show frequency in Hz/ERB.

Figure 3

English vowel prototypes.

Figure 4

Schematic model of an interaction between speaker and listener. Formants F1 and F2 are represented in auditory scales.

Figure 5

Results of a 100-cycle simulation with Welsh inventory showing cogphone sampling.

Figure 6

A simulation starting from Spanish vowels showing vowel sampling. A GIF animation showing the steps can be viewed here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Language-Science-Models-Lab/voss/master/spanish_vowels.gif. The file is also available for download here: https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.198.s1.

Figure 7

A simulation starting from Danish vowels showing cogphone shifting. A GIF animation showing the steps can be viewed here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Language-Science-Models-Lab/voss/master/danish_phones_shift.gif. The file is also available for download here: https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.198.s2.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.198 | Journal eISSN: 2049-9647
Language: English
Submitted on: Oct 2, 2017
Accepted on: Feb 18, 2019
Published on: Mar 25, 2019
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2019 Sean A. Fulop, Hannah Scott, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.