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	Vowel Formant Analysis	Sociophonetic Analysis
สาขาวิชา	ภาษาศาสตร์	ภาษาศาสตร์
ตระกูล	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
ปีกำเนิด	1952	2006
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Acoustic phoneticians (Gordon Peterson & Harold Barney)	Sociophoneticians (William Labov; Paul Foulkes; Erik R. Thomas)
ประเภท	Acoustic measurement workflow for vowel quality	Workflow correlating acoustic phonetic measurement with social factors
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Peterson, G. E., & Barney, H. L. (1952). Control methods used in a study of the vowels. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 24(2), 175–184.	Foulkes, P., Scobbie, J. M., & Watt, D. (2010). Sociophonetics. In W. J. Hardcastle, J. Laver, & F. E. Gibbon (Eds.), The Handbook of Phonetic Sciences (2nd ed., pp. 703–754). Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN: 9781405145909
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	Formant Analysis, Vowel Acoustic Analysis, F1-F2 Vowel Space Analysis	Sociophonetics, Sociophonetic Variation Analysis, Phonetic Variation Analysis
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	4	4
สรุป	Vowel formant analysis is the acoustic measurement workflow for characterizing vowel quality. Vowels are resonances of the vocal tract, and their identity is carried by the formants — the spectral peaks created by those resonances. The first formant F1 is inversely related to vowel height (low F1 for high vowels, high F1 for low vowels), and the second formant F2 tracks frontness/backness (high F2 for front vowels, low F2 for back vowels). By measuring F1 and F2, plotting vowels in the F1×F2 acoustic space, and normalizing across speakers with procedures such as Lobanov, Bark, and Nearey, analysts obtain a reproducible map of a vowel system that can be compared within and across speakers, dialects, and time.	Sociophonetic analysis sits at the intersection of acoustic phonetics and variationist sociolinguistics. It applies the precise, quantitative measurement of phonetic variables — vowel formants, voice onset time (VOT), the spectral moments of /s/, and many others — to socially structured samples of speech, then correlates those measurements with social factors such as age, social class, gender, ethnicity, and region. The result is a fine-grained, statistically defensible account of how phonetic detail carries social meaning and how it patterns across communities and across time, increasingly built on large-scale, automated measurement.