Relating Acoustic Measures to Listener Ratings of Children's Productions of Word-Initial /ɹ/ and /w/.
Elizabeth E AncelMichael L SmithV N Vimal RaoBenjamin MunsonPublished in: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR (2023)
The weak relationship between automated F3-F2 difference and both listener ratings and narrow transcriptions suggests that these automated acoustic measures are of questionable reliability and utility in assessing preschool children's mastery of the /ɹ/-/w/ contrast.