The current paper describes a study that deals with the factors that determine the possible insertion of a schwa in final consonant clusters in Standard Dutch. Our study reveals that the absence or occurrence of such an extra vowel is dependent on regional, social and phonotactic determinants. We discuss how this finding, in combination with other results on speech variability, is important for speech technological applications, both for synthesis and recognition.
Cite as: Swerts, M., Kloots, H., Gillis, S., Schutter, G.D. (2001) Factors affecting schwa-insertion in final consonant clusters in standard dutch. Proc. 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 2001), 75-78, doi: 10.21437/Eurospeech.2001-31
@inproceedings{swerts01_eurospeech,
author={Marc Swerts and Hanne Kloots and Steven Gillis and Georges De Schutter},
title={{Factors affecting schwa-insertion in final consonant clusters in standard dutch}},
year=2001,
booktitle={Proc. 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech 2001)},
pages={75--78},
doi={10.21437/Eurospeech.2001-31}
}