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Spectral Moments of Fricative Consonants in Serbian (an Account of Female Speakers’ Production) [PDF]
Filolog, 2020 This paper deals with the measurement of spectral moments of Serbian fricatives. The four spectral moments: centre of gravity, spectral variance, skewness, and kurtosis were measured at the onset of the fricative, on the stable-state part and at the ...
Borivoje T. Petrović
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Lenition of fricative sibilants in casual conversations in Basque
Estudios de Fonética ExperimentalThis paper analyses lenition of lamino-alveolar and apico-alveolar fricative sibilants in Basque in casual conversations between speakers of the variety of Beasain (Central Basque dialect).
Dorota Krajewska
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On the perception of “segmental intonation”: F0 context effects on sibilant identification in German
EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, 2017 In normal modally voiced utterances, voiceless fricatives like [s], [ʃ], [f], and [x] vary such that their aperiodic pitch impressions mirror the pitch level of the adjacent F0 contour. For instance, if the F0 contour creates a high or low pitch context,
Oliver Niebuhr
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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]
Wellington Mendes
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Language maintenance and change: fricative sibilants in Galician
Revista de Filología Románica, 2016 The language of rural communities is under great pressure to change, both by the presence of the standard language as, in the case of Galicia, of the Spanish language.
Xosé Luís Regueira
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Multichannel Speech Acquisition and Analysis for Computer-Aided Sigmatism Diagnosis in Children
IEEE Access, 2020 A novel concept for acoustic data acquisition for computer-aided diagnosis of a common speech disorder (sigmatism) is presented in this paper. We designed and built a data acquisition device enabling repeatable speech signal acquisition in up to fifteen ...
Michal Krecichwost +3 more
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Bringing phonological oddities to the fore: The Basque sibilants
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo"The contrast between apical and laminal articulations in Basque dento-alveolar sibilant consonants has traditionally attracted linguists’ attention. This distributedness distinction, as it has come to be known in the literature, was assumed to be very ...
Iván Igartua
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Temporal organization in sibilant-stop clusters in Moenat Ladin
IsoglossIn this paper, we probe the temporal organization of word-initial consonant clusters in Moenat Ladin, a threatened and understudied minority Romance language in Italy. We focus on sibilant-stop clusters and hypothesize that the sibilant is external to a
Yifan Yang, Rachel Walker
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UKRAINIAN ORAL SPEECH OF THE MODERN YOUTH OF THE SOUTHERN AND WESTERN ZONE: DEVIANT PROCESSES
Записки з українського мовознавства, 2018 The article is devoted to the Ukrainian oral speech at the synchronic level, in particular to the spoken features of the Ukrainian language. The attempt to reveal, analyze and describe the deviations which appear as a result of violations of unstable ...
М. Л. Дружинець
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Exceptionality in Spanish Onset Clusters
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2020 Spanish complex onsets have been traditionally described as consisting of a stop (/p, t, k, b, d, g/) or the fricative /f/ plus a liquid. Given that all Spanish varieties have other fricatives (/x, s/), the obstruents that can form part of an onset ...
Katerina A. Tetzloff
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