R gist — VOT and place of articulation

In this post, I plot data from Chodroff, Golden & Wilson (2019) in a 3D chart.

Read data

vot <- read_csv("./data/chodroff2019/ChodroffGoldenWilson2019_vot_avg.csv") %>%
  group_by(vot.category) %>%
  mutate(vot.mu_z = scale(vot.mu)) %>%
  ungroup() %>%
  pivot_wider(names_from = poa.broad, values_from = c(vot.mu, vot.mu_z)) %>%
  mutate(vot_category = recode(vot.category, long.lag = "long lag", short.lag = "short lag"))

Mean VOT

vot %>%
  plot_ly(
    x = ~vot.mu_labial, y = ~vot.mu_coronal, z = ~vot.mu_dorsal, color = ~vot_category, text = ~language,
    marker = list(size = 5, opacity = 0.7),
    hovertemplate = paste("<b>%{text}</b>", "<br>Labial: %{x:.1r}", "<br>Coronal: %{y:.1r}", "<br>Dorsal: %{z:.1r}")
  )

Mean VOT (z-scores)

vot %>%
  plot_ly(
    x = ~vot.mu_z_labial, y = ~vot.mu_z_coronal, z = ~vot.mu_z_dorsal, color = ~vot_category, text = ~language,
    marker = list(size = 5, opacity = 0.7),
    hovertemplate = paste("<b>%{text}</b>", "<br>Labial: %{x:.1r}", "<br>Coronal: %{y:.1r}", "<br>Dorsal: %{z:.1r}")
  )

References

Chodroff, Eleanor, Alessandra Golden & Colin Wilson. 2019. Covariation of stop voice onset time across languages: Evidence for a universal constraint on phonetic realization. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 145(1). EL109EL115. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5088035.