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.