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Acoustic cues for the korean stop contrast-dialectal variation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In this study, cross-dialectal variation in the use of the acoustic cues of VOT and F0 to mark the laryngeal contrast in Korean stops is examined with Chonnam Korean and Seoul Korean.
Choi, Hansook
core  

Accent Change in the Wake of the Industrial Revolution: Tracing Derhoticisation Across Historic North Lancashire

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article applies a social model of historical dialect evolution in 19th‐century Britain to the analysis of sociophonetic data. Our aim is to assess where new dialect formation is likely to occur, and where it is not. Using recordings from 27 speakers, we first analyse coda rhoticity in north Lancashire, UK. The speakers were born 1890–1917
Claire Nance, Malika Mahamdi
wiley   +1 more source

In quest for Cardinal Vowels

open access: yesArchives of Acoustics, 2014
180 isolate voicings of (near) Cardinal Vowels - 10 of each: [i e ε a y ...] were described using four formant frequencies, which were measured from FFT spectra.
W. JASSEM, M. KRZYŚKO
doaj  

Statistical analysis of acoustic characteristics of Tibetan Lhasa dialect speech emotion

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences, 2016
The paper makes a quantitative analysis and comparison on the continuous speech emotion of Lhasa Tibetan in the four basic emotional patterns (happy, surprise, sad, neutral) pitch, energy and time length by experimental phonetics and the linear ...
Guo Dandan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dimension esthétique des voix normales et dysphoniques : Approches perceptive et acoustique

open access: yesTIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage, 2012
Researchers as well as speech therapists are interested in acoustic cues, that allow evaluating voice quality and its degradation in order to obtain a diagnosis and to analyze the effects of a therapy.
Melissa Barkat-Defradas   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

An acoustic-phonetic data base [PDF]

open access: yesThe Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1987
DARPA has sponsored the design and collection of a large speech data base. Six hundred and thirty speakers read ten sentences each. Two sentences were constant for all speakers; the remaining eight sentences were selected from a set of 450 designed at MIT and 1890 selected at TI from text sources.
William M. Fisher   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

Learning to Produce Speech with an Altered Vocal Tract: The Role of Auditory Feedback [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Modifying the vocal tract alters a speaker’s previously learned acoustic–articulatory relationship. This study investigated the contribution of auditory feedback to the process of adapting to vocal-tract modifications.
Jones, Jeffery A., Munhall, Kevin
core   +1 more source

Raddoppiamento sintattico and glottalization phenomena in Italian [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
This paper is a preliminary phonetic exploration of aspects of the well-known Italian sandhi phenomenon of Raddoppiamento sintattico (henceforth RS), which involves the gemination of word-initial consonants under certain conditions, eg dei [k]ani ‘some ...
Absalom, Matthew   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Children's Foreign Word Recognition at First Exposure: The Role of Phonological Similarity and Utterance Position

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract The current study examined how children apply their phonological knowledge to recognize translation equivalents in a foreign language. Target words for recognition were either phonologically similar (cognate) or dissimilar (noncognate) to words they already knew in their first language.
Katie Von Holzen, Rochelle S. Newman
wiley   +1 more source

Acoustic characteristics of the Latvian sonorants

open access: yesBaltistica, 2012
The present article describes the spectral characteristics of the Latvian sonorants /m/, /n/ ([n] and [ŋ]), /ɲ/, /l/, /ʎ/ and /r/ as investigated in a pilot-study.
Juris Grigorjevs
doaj   +3 more sources

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