data_s - Duration of word-final /s/ in English

The Duration of word-final /s/ in English data set, data_s, contains data on three different types of word-final /s/ in English, i.e. non-morphemic, plural, and is-clitic /s/. The data is fictional, but closely related to the original data used in a study by Schmitz et al. (2021). A possible question to investigate with this data set is whether the duration of /s/ depends on the type of /s/.

data_s

Format

A data frame with 150 rows and 24 variables:

number: unique ID
item: pseudoword produced, contains the /s/
speaker: speaker ID
bsex: biological sex of speaker
list: ID of pseudo-randomized list
typeOfS: type of /s/, i.e. non-morphemic, plural, is-clitic
folSeg: phone following the /s/
slideNumber: number of slide during experiment
transcription: transcription of item
sDur: duration of word-final /s/ in seconds
baseDur: duration of string of segments before /s/ in seconds
sDurLog: log-transformed sDur
baseDurLog: log-transformed baseDur
biphoneProbSum: summed biphone probability of transcription
biphoneProbSumBin: binary version of biphoneProbSum
age: age of speaker
location: home of speaker
monoMultilingual: mono- vs multilinguality of speaker
speakingRate: speech rate
pauseDur: duration of pause following the /s/
pauseBin: binary version of pauseDur
folType: segmental type of folSeg
preC: phone preceding the /s/
googleFreq: number of Google hits for item

Source

Schmitz, D., Baer-Henney, D., & Plag, I. (2021). The duration of word-final /s/ differs across morphological categories in English: evidence from pseudowords. Phonetica. De Gruyter Mouton 78(5–6). 571–616. https://doi.org/10.1515/phon-2021-2013.