Do 'leaders' sound different from 'laggers? Exploring the perceptual similarity of New Zealand English voices

Elena Sheard, Jen Hay, Joshua Wilson Black, Lynn Clark

How to use this repository

This repository contains the analysis for "Do 'leaders' sound different from 'laggers? Exploring the perceptual similarity of New Zealand English voices" (in prep).

There are two primary ways to use this repository:

1. Read through the full analysis as a website by clicking here (recommended).
2. Clone the repository to rerun our analysis locally or to modify it (for those who are interested). If you don't know how to do this in RStudio, go here.

If you would like to know how the 'leader-lagger' and 'back-vowel configuration' scores used in this analysis were generated, please refer to this github repository.

Repository structure

The repository contains a series of sub-directories.

• Data: contains anonymised data used in the project.
• Figures: contains logos and images used in the repository.
• Markdown: contains the Rmarkdown files with the code for the analysis and generating the analysis data frames. The 'knit' html versions of the markdown files, and the .bib files used in the analysis, are also included.