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Vowel duration in stressed position in central & northern varieties of standard Italian [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
We report the results of a pilot study investigating the effect of 2 regional accents on stressed vowel duration according to word-position and syllable type in Central v. Northern accents of Standard Italian.
Lee, Wai-Sum, Stevens, Mary, Hajek, John
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The Sound Pattern of Heritage Spanish: An Exploratory Study on the Effects of a Classroom Experience

open access: yesLanguages, 2020
While heritage Spanish phonetics and phonology and classroom experiences have received increased attention in recent years, these areas have yet to converge.
Rajiv Rao   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Quantity distinction in the Hungarian vowel system - just theory or also reality? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
According to most current theories, the Hungarian vowel system involves 14 vowels that correspond to seven vowel pairs, each differentiated by quantity.
Reichel, Uwe D.   +3 more
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Vowel duration, compression and lengthening in stressed syllables in Central and Southern varieties of standard Italian [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This study is the first investigation of the effects of regional accent on temporal organization, specifically of vowel duration, in stressed syllables in standard Italian.
Stevens, Mary, Hajek, John
core   +1 more source

Reverberation impairs brainstem temporal representations of voiced vowel sounds: challenging periodicity-tagged segregation of competing speech in rooms

open access: yesFrontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 2015
The auditory system typically processes information from concurrently active sound sources (e.g., two voices speaking at once), in the presence of multiple delayed, attenuated and distorted sound-wave reflections (reverberation).
Mark eSayles   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Auditory preattentive processing of Thai vowel change perception in consonant-vowel (CV) syllables [PDF]

open access: yesSongklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology (SJST), 2004
Event-related potential (ERP) responses to infrequently presented spoken deviant syllables /pi/ among repetitive standard /pc/ syllables were recorded in Thai subjects who ignored these stimuli while reading books of their choices.
Naiphinich Kotchabhakdi   +2 more
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Detrending the Waveforms of Steady-State Vowels

open access: yesEntropy, 2020
Steady-state vowels are vowels that are uttered with a momentarily fixed vocal tract configuration and with steady vibration of the vocal folds. In this steady-state, the vowel waveform appears as a quasi-periodic string of elementary units called pitch ...
Marnix Van Soom, Bart de Boer
doaj   +1 more source

Vowel Phoneme Segmentation for Speaker Identification Using an ANN-Based Framework

open access: yesJournal of Intelligent Systems, 2013
Vowel phonemes are a part of any acoustic speech signal. Vowel sounds occur in speech more frequently and with higher energy. Therefore, vowel phoneme can be used to extract different amounts of speaker discriminative information in situations where ...
Sarma Mousmita, Sarma Kandarpa Kumar
doaj   +1 more source

Softness of consonants in the oral speech of Russian-speaking bilinguals in Germany and monolinguals in Russia

open access: yesRussian Language Studies, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

Spectral Dynamics in L1 and L2 Vowel Perception [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This paper presents a study of L1 and L2 vowel perception by Polish learners of English. Employing the Silent Center paradigm (e.g. Strange et al. 1983), by which listeners are presented with different portions of a vowel, a force choice identification ...
Aperliński, Grzegorz   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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