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The window of opportunity: Anticipatory nasal coarticulation in three languages [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
This paper compares anticipatory nasal coarticulation in American English, French, and German. These languages differ in whether nasality is contrastive (French), phonologized but not contrastive (American English), or neither (German).
Lo, J. J. H.   +6 more
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Palatalization in educated Cairene Arabic

open access: yesNordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2016
In the speech of some educated Cairenes, the coronal stops /t d tˤ dˤ/ acquire a secondary palatal articulation before high front vowels and glides, resulting in [tj] or [dj].
Islam Youssef
doaj   +1 more source

Individual variation and the coarticulatory path to sound change: agent-based modeling of /str/ in English and Italian

open access: yesGlossa, 2022
This study is concerned with sound change in single populations. Sources differ as to whether such sound changes are attributed to the accumulation of coarticulatory variation, i.e.
Jonathan Harrington, Mary Stevens
doaj   +2 more sources

Removing the Disguise: The Matched Guise Technique, Incongruity, and Listener Awareness

open access: yesJournal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 29, Issue 3, Page 194-209, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Sociophonetic perception is often studied using versions of the matched guise technique (MGT). Linguists using this technique appear united in the methodological assumptions that participants believe the manipulation and that this belief influences perception below the level of introspective awareness.
Kyler Laycock, Kevin B. McGowan
wiley   +1 more source

Coarticulation and age

open access: yes, 2022
Ovome je radu bio cilj pregledati istraživanja koja su uspoređivala koartikulaciju ljudi različitih dobnih skupina, te zaključiti koliko se razina koartikulacije i njezini obrasci mijenjaju kroz dob.
Perić, Lovro
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Movement Epenthesis Detection for Continuous Sign Language Recognition

open access: yesJournal of Intelligent Systems, 2017
Automatic sign language recognition (SLR) is a current area of research as this is meant to serve as a substitute for sign language interpreters. In this paper, we present the design of a continuous SLR system that can extract out the meaningful signs ...
Choudhury Ananya   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Discovering Dynamical Laws for Speech Gestures

open access: yesCognitive Science, Volume 49, Issue 5, May 2025.
Abstract A fundamental challenge in the cognitive sciences is discovering the dynamics that govern behavior. Take the example of spoken language, which is characterized by a highly variable and complex set of physical movements that map onto the small set of cognitive units that comprise language.
Sam Kirkham
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Two Linguistically Proximal Varieties on the Spectral and Coarticulatory Properties of Fricatives: Evidence from Athenian Greek and Cypriot Greek

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2017
Several studies have explored the acoustic structure of fricatives, yet there has been very little acoustic research on the effects of dialects on the production of fricatives.
Charalambos Themistocleous
doaj   +1 more source

Founder effects identify languages of the earliest Americans

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 186, Issue 1, January 2025.
Abstract The known languages of the Americas comprise nearly half of the world's language families and a wide range of structural types, a level of diversity that required considerable time to develop. This paper proposes a model of settlement and expansion designed to integrate current linguistic analysis with other prehistoric research on the ...
Johanna Nichols
wiley   +1 more source

Anticipatory tonal coarticulation in Thai noun compounds

open access: yes, 1992
It is commonly known that speech sounds are subject to influences from adjacent sounds which alter their phonetic manifestation. This phenomenon is called coarticulation. Of particular interest is anticipatory or look ahead coarticulation. which involves
Potisuk, Siripong   +3 more
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