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Speech sound discrimination in background noise across the lifespan: a comparative study in Mongolian gerbils and humans [PDF]
Many elderly listeners have difficulties with speech-in-noise perception, even if auditory thresholds in quiet are normal. The mechanisms underlying this compromised speech perception with age are still not understood.
Carolin Jüchter+6 more
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KhoramAbadi Luri Monophthongs: An Acoustic Study [PDF]
This study investigated the acoustic parameters of the fundamental frequency, first and second formant frequencies, duration and intensity in KhoramAbadi Luri vowels. 10 participants (5 male, 5 female) produced 1620 tokens, including /ɑ،y،ø،o،u،ə،a،e،ʏ،ɪ،
Nasim Vafaei+2 more
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Formant Transitions of Turkish Vowels [PDF]
Acoustic correlates of consonantal place of articulation are numerous and varied. Burst information, onset spectra, and formant transition motion have all been implicated as the significant cues for consonant place of articulation within each labial ...
Vahid Sadeghi, Solmaz Mahmoodi
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The Department of Education and Culture's Strategy to Address Educator Shortage in Pontianak
The purpose of this research was to examine the Department of Education and Culture's strategy for addressing the city of Pontianak's teacher shortage. This study employs an inductive descriptive qualitative method.
Rahmawati Sururama+1 more
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An acoustic study of vowel production in Persian aphasic speech [PDF]
Two anterior aphasic patients (one man and one woman) were recorded for their productions of six Persian vowels and were compared to a group of four normal speakers (two men and two women).
Mansooreh Shekaramiz
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Vowel Spectra, Vowel Spaces, and Vowel Identification [PDF]
Twelve Dutch vowels, each pronounced by 50 male speakers, were analyzed in 18 filter bands comparable in bandwidth with the ear's critical band. By considering the sound levels (in decibels) in these filter bands as dimensions, with a principal-component analysis the 18 dimensions per sound were reduced to four factors which together explain 75% of the
Klein, W., Plomp, R., Pols, L.C.W.
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The softness of Russian consonants in the oral speech of two generations of Russian-speaking bilinguals in Germany and monolinguals in Russia is explored. The relevance of the problem is due to the importance of studying the inherited Russian language of
Anastasia Yu. Vikhrova+1 more
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Neural Representation of the English Vowel Feature [High]: Evidence From /ε/ vs. /ɪ/
Many studies have observed modulation of the amplitude of the neural index mismatch negativity (MMN) related to which member of a phoneme contrast [phoneme A, phoneme B] serves as the frequent (standard) and which serves as the infrequent (deviant ...
Yan H. Yu, Valerie L. Shafer
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Acoustic features of voice in adults suffering from depression [PDF]
In order to examine the differences in people suffering from depression (EG, N=18) compared to the healthy controls (CG1, N=24) and people with the diagnosed psychogenic voice disorder (CG2, N=9), nine acoustic features of voice were assessed among the ...
Calić Gordana+3 more
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Bora's high vowels involve a two-way dental contrast, not a three-way backness contrast
The Bora language of Peru has six phonemic vowels, conventionally transcribed as /i ε a o ɨ ɯ/. This inventory is noteworthy since it appears to exhibit a three-way backness distinction among three high unrounded vowels.
Jeff Mielke, Steve Parker
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