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Distribution of information in stop consonants

Proceedings of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1963
A representative sample of stop-consonant sounds was recorded on magnetic tape. These were then cut out and spliced close together; they were played back and their oscillograms recorded with a camera of the continuously motor-driven type. On this film the required parts of the sounds, their gap, burst, transition, etc., can be located.
R.W. Guelke, E.D. Smith
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Velar and dental stop consonant softening in Romance

, 2011
Experimental and descriptive evidence from the Romance languages suggests that velar and dental stop consonant softening, i.e., the process by which stops of these places of articulation turn mostly into palatoalveolar or alveolar affricates or ...
D. Recasens
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On the naturalness of stop consonant voicing

Journal of Linguistics, 1986
A long recognized problem for linguistic theory has been to explain why certain sounds, sound oppositions, and sound sequences are statistically preferred over others among languages of the world. The formal theory of markedness, developed by Trubetzkoy and Jakobson in the early 1930's, and extended by Chomsky and Halle (1968), represents an attempt to
Patricia A. Keating, John R. Westbury
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Influence of preceding fricative on stop consonant perception.

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1981
The effect of a preceding fricative on the perceived place of stop consonant articulation was investigated in a series of experiments. In experiment 1, we preceded synthetic syllables from two [tV]--[kV] continua with fricative noises appropriate to ...
V. Mann, B. Repp
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Closure duration of stop consonants

Journal of Phonetics, 1983
Abstract: The present research was designed to provide additional data on stop closure durations as a function of (1) voicing, (2) stress, (3) position, and (4) place-of-articulation. Six subjects, three males and three females, produced a series of nonsense disyllables of the form CVCVC in a carrier phrase.
Elaine T. Stathopoulos, Gary Weismer
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Detecting stop consonants in continuous speech

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2002
The problem of implementing a detector for stop consonants in continuously spoken speech is considered. The problem is posed as one of finding an optimal filter (linear or nonlinear) that operates on a particular appropriately chosen representation, and ideally outputs a 1 when a stop occurs and 0 otherwise.
M. M. Sondhi, Partha Niyogi
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Detection of stop consonants with the wavelet transform

Proceedings of IEEE-SP International Symposium on Time- Frequency and Time-Scale Analysis, 2002
We present the burst detection of stop consonants in the French language with the wavelet transform. The system is based on the study of normalized correlation functions between the modulus of the impulse wavelet transform and the same transform of the speech signal.
Malbos, F., Baudry, Marc, Montrésor, Silvio   +2 more
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The perception of stop consonants by children

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1973
Abstract Kindergarten and second-grade children's perception of voicing distinctions among the stop consonants was investigated by assessing their ability to identify and discriminate a series of synthetic speech stimuli varying in voice onset time (VOT). Perception of these sounds was found to be nearly categorical.
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Fundamental frequency correlates of stop consonant voicing and vowel quality in the speech of preadolescent children.

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1985
Fundamental frequency (F0) and voice onset time (VOT) were measured in utterances containing voiceless aspirated [ph, th, kh], voiceless unaspirated [sp, st, sk], and voiced [b, d, g] stop consonants produced in the context of [i, e, u, o, a] by 8- to 9 ...
R. N. Ohde
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Allophonic Backward Masking of Stop Consonants [PDF]

Phonetica, 1980
Abstract During dichotic stimulation with CV [stop + vowel] syllables, 5 subjects reported right ear (RE) targets as the left ear (LE) mask syllable lagged behind RE by 0–200 ms. Seven-step synthetic speech continua for voice (/pa-ba/, /ta-da/) and place (/pa-ta/, /ba-da/) served as stimuli; stimulus 1 and 7 were phonetically ‘optimum ...
Peter J. Alfonso, Raymond G. Daniloff
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