Do Sibilants Fly? Evidence from a Sound Symbolic Pattern in Pokémon Names
Open Linguistics, 2020 Ancient writers, including Socrates and the Upanishads, argued that sibilants are associated with the notions of wind, air and sky. From modern perspectives, these statements can be understood as an assertion about sound symbolism, i.e., systematic ...
Shigeto Kawahara, Mahayana Godoy
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Hybridization of Acoustic and Visual Features of Polish Sibilants Produced by Children for Computer Speech Diagnosis [PDF]
SensorsSpeech disorders are significant barriers to the balanced development of a child. Many children in Poland are affected by lisps (sigmatism)—the incorrect articulation of sibilants.
Zuzanna Miodońska +2 more
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LanguagesThis study investigates consonant devoicing in Brazilian Portuguese (BP), in order to assess whether an ongoing sound change is taking place. We examine plural forms consisting of a stop consonant followed by a word-final sibilant, such as in redes [hedz]
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Beyond orthography: a refined perceptual assimilation task paradigm for measuring cross-linguistic phonetic similarity [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyTo address the limitations of traditional Perceptual Assimilation Task paradigms—specifically their heavy reliance on phonetic notation and metalinguistic knowledge—this study proposes a refined, orthography-independent paradigm.
Jing Yang, Yufeng Chen
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English Speakers Can Infer Pokémon Types Based on Sound Symbolism [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Sound symbolism, systematic associations between sounds and meanings, is receiving increasing attention in linguistics, psychology and related disciplines.
Shigeto Kawahara +2 more
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Polish multichannel audio-visual child speech dataset with double-expert sigmatism diagnosis [PDF]
Scientific DataThe paper introduces PAVSig: Polish Audio-Visual child speech dataset for computer-aided diagnosis of Sigmatism (lisp). The study aimed to gather data on articulation, acoustics, and visual appearance of the articulators in different child speech ...
Michal Krecichwost +5 more
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Asymmetric Influence of Vocalic Context on Mandarin Sibilants: Evidence From ERP Studies [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021 In the present study, we examine the interactive effect of vowels on Mandarin fricative sibilants using a passive oddball paradigm to determine whether the HEIGHT features of vowels can spread on the surface and influence preceding consonants with ...
Yaxuan Meng +5 more
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Reconstructing phonetics behind the graphic system of Evenki texts from the Rychkov archive [PDF]
Rhema. Рема, 2021 This paper discusses the graphic system of manuscripts by Konstantin Rychkov (ca. 1910) containing texts in several dialects of Evenki (Tungusic) with Russian translation.
A.V. Arkhipov, С.L. Däbritz
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Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2021 Several studies in linguistics and related disciplines have been extensively exploring sound symbolism, systematic associations between sounds and meanings.
André Lucas Gomes +3 more
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Immediate Integration of Coarticulatory Cues for /s/-Retraction in American English
Frontiers in Communication, 2022 Coarticulatory “noise” has long been presumed to benefit the speaker at the expense of the listener. However, recent work has found that listeners make use of that variation in real time to aid speech processing, immediately integrating coarticulatory ...
Jacob B. Phillips
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