Typicality and voice quality: methodological considerations on the control of sociolinguistic, phonetic, and voice criteria

Forensic-phonetic casework, based on a Bayesian framework, estimates the strength-of-evidence by evaluating the ratio between the similarity and typicality of the speech samples being compared. Typicality refers to the rarity of a linguistic event. Its calculation involves accessing speech data repr...

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Autores: Passetti, Renata Regina, Madureira, Sandra, Brescancini, Cláudia Regina, Arantes, Pablo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Repositorio:Cadernos de Estudos Linguísticos
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br:article/8675468
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/cel/article/view/8675468
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Forensic Phonetics
Voice quality
Typicality
Fonética Forense
Qualidade de voz
Tipicidade
Calidad de voz
Tipicidad
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Sumario:Forensic-phonetic casework, based on a Bayesian framework, estimates the strength-of-evidence by evaluating the ratio between the similarity and typicality of the speech samples being compared. Typicality refers to the rarity of a linguistic event. Its calculation involves accessing speech data representative of the relevant population to which the criminal and suspects are presumed to belong. In addition to promoting efforts to develop and/or select these databases, it is also necessary to address methodological issues that allow the representation and selection of the social and linguistic features under analysis. This paper aims to present and discuss sociolinguistic, phonetic, and voice-related criteria for the development of speech databases and/or the selection of samples extracted from speech databases for evaluating the typicality of acoustic and auditory correlates of voice quality. The emphasis on voice quality is grounded in its indexical nature, practical relevance to forensic casework, and the specificity required for building relevant populations.