Hybridization of Acoustic and Visual Features of Polish Sibilants Produced by Children for Computer Speech Diagnosis [PDF]
Speech 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.
Agata Sage +2 more
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English Speakers Can Infer Pokémon Types Based on Sound Symbolism [PDF]
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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Do Sibilants Fly? Evidence from a Sound Symbolic Pattern in Pokémon Names
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 C Godoy
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Polish multichannel audio-visual child speech dataset with double-expert sigmatism diagnosis [PDF]
The 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]
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]
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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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
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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Affrication as the cause of /s/-retraction: Evidence from Manchester English
Retraction of /s/ to a more [ʃ]-like sound is a well-known sound change attested across many varieties of English for /stɹ/ words, e.g. street and strong.
Danielle Turton +3 more
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Ob oboznačenii zvukov v vodskom literaturnom jazyke [Problems of the Spelling System of the Votic Written Language] [PDF]
On the ground of the first printed book (2004) are analyzed problems of the spelling system of the Votic written language, based on the Jõgõperä dialect which is today the sole existing dialect of this language. The Latin alphabet with some diacritics
Enn Ernits
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