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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  

Cross-modal associations in synaesthesia: vowel colours in the ear of the beholder [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Human speech conveys many forms of information, but for some exceptional individuals (synaesthetes), listening to speech sounds can automatically induce visual percepts such as colours.
Miller, Sam R.   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Incidental Nonspeech Auditory Learning Scaffolds Phonetic, Category, and Word Learning in a Foreign Language Classroom

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract There is considerable lab‐based evidence for successful incidental learning, in which a learner's attention is directed away from the to‐be‐learned stimulus and towards another stimulus. In this study, we extend incidental learning research into the language learning classroom.
Seth Wiener   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Perception of Polish accent in a re-synthesized speech signal

open access: yesArchives of Acoustics, 2014
The utterance /vidzitceteras/ was spoken, in three versions, with the accent (I) on the first, (II) on the second and (IV) on the fourth syllable. Using a package of computer programs for speech processing which executes analysis and synthesis by linear ...
W. JASSEM, W. Van Dommelen
doaj  

Vowel Compression in Altiplateau Mexican Spanish

open access: yesIsogloss, 2022
This paper presents an exploratory study of coda-driven vowel compression in Altiplateau Mexican Spanish (AMS). Previous research has led to the claim that pan-dialectal, coda-driven compression does not occur in Spanish and that, instead, only ...
Gilly Marchini, Michael Ramsammy
doaj   +1 more source

The weight of phonetic substance in the structure of sound inventories [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In the research field initiated by Lindblom & Liljencrants in 1972, we illustrate the possibility of giving substance to phonology, predicting the structure of phonological systems with nonphonological principles, be they listener-oriented (perceptual ...
Abry, Christian   +4 more
core  

Automatic Measurement of Pre-aspiration

open access: yes, 2017
Pre-aspiration is defined as the period of glottal friction occurring in sequences of vocalic/consonantal sonorants and phonetically voiceless obstruents.
Adi, Yossi   +3 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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