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Figure 2: Configuration of British English phonemes obtained by averaging all uttered samples of each phoneme in the three-dimensional factor space. | Scientific Reports
Figure 2: Configuration of British English phonemes obtained by averaging all uttered samples of each phoneme in the three-dimensional factor space.
Each point indicated by an International Phonetic Alphabet symbol represents 27–2172 samples. The curve shows a fitting by eye of a sonority/aperture scale as in the linguistics literature1,7,14,15. The direction of this view is the same as in Fig. 1d.
