North East England Vocal Acoustics & Dialect Cartography Lab

Investigating the acoustic physics and psychoacoustics of regional voice timbre perception

Dialect Isogloss Map Tyneside

Northumberland Tyneside (Newcastle) Wearside (Sunderland) Durham Coalfield River Tyne
Phonetic Context: North East England varieties exhibit pronounced monophthongization and vowel fronting. Geordie speech is renowned for its distinctive intonational rise-fall contour and warm vocal tract resonance.

Acoustic Vowel Quadrilateral (F1 vs F2) F1: 390 Hz | F2: 1980 Hz

Click or drag on the quadrilateral plane to modulate F1 (tongue height / jaw opening) and F2 (tongue advancement / frontness).

Acoustic Spectral Profile & Intonation Track

0 Hz (Fundamental F0) Formant Peaks (F1, F2, F3) 4000 Hz

Timbre Physics & Psychoacoustics

Empirical Vocal Classification

Perception: Warm & Resonant (Soothing Profile)
Spectral Centroid
1420 Hz
Warmth Index
78 / 100
F1 Formant
390 Hz
F2 Formant
1980 Hz
Isogloss Cluster: Tyneside (Geordie) Centered

      
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