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The Czech alveolar sonorant trill /r/, like liquids generally, constitutes a challenge from the point of view of locating its boundaries in the acoustic stream. As it is desirable to label and segment a phonetic corpus uniformly and also to facilitate a high degree of inter-labeller agreement, rules for specifying speechsound boundaries should be unambiguous and as straightforward as possible. In this study, we examined various acoustic forms of Czech /r/ – from the trill and a flap to strongly reduced instances – and their implications for segmentation. The above-mentioned requirements resulted in the necessity to treat the segmentation of intervocalic items of /r/ differently from items occurring in consonant clusters.
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Machač, P. (2009). Implications of Acoustic Variation for the Segmentation of the Czech Trill /r/. In: Esposito, A., Vích, R. (eds) Cross-Modal Analysis of Speech, Gestures, Gaze and Facial Expressions. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5641. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03320-9_17
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