R-Voicing-Gemination-VOT

This repo contains the analyses performed for the paper:

Al-Tamimi, J. and Khattab, G., (2018). Acoustic correlates of the voicing contrast in Lebanese Arabic singleton and geminate stops. Invited manuscript for the special issue of Journal of Phonetics, “Marking 50 Years of Research on Voice Onset Time and the Voicing Contrast in the World’s Languages” (eds., T. Cho, G. Docherty & D. Whalen). Vol: 71, pp. 306-325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2018.09.010

Two types of analyses were performed:

  1. Linear Mixed Effects Modelling as a confirmatory analyses see notebook
  2. Random Forests by Conditional Inference Trees as a classification technique see notebook

The datasets can be accessed here:

  1. For Linear Mixed Effects Modelling
  2. For Random Forests by Conditional Inference Trees