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Finding Natural Classes of Consonants and Vowels in Qur"an Rhyme [PDF]

̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2017
The present study is aimed to find the natural classes in final rhyme of some verses in the Holy Qur"an. Many verses in the Qur"an have the final rhymes ending in the same consonants and vowels; some others don"t have similar consonants or vowels in the ...
Aliyeh Kord Zafaranlu Kambuziya, Fatemeh Shahverdi Shahraki   +1 more
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Information-Theoretic Characterization of Vowel Harmony: A Cross-Linguistic Study on Word Lists [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
We present a cross-linguistic study that aims to quantify vowel harmony using data-driven computational modeling. Concretely, we define an information-theoretic measure of harmonicity based on the predictability of vowels in a natural language lexicon, which we estimate using phoneme-level language models (PLMs).
arxiv  

The effect of lexical stress on vowel quality in Persian [PDF]

̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2014
In certain languages, vowel quality changes in unstressed syllables. In acoustic phonetics, this characteristic, namely vowel 'undershoot' under certain conditions and the tendency to centralize, is referred to as 'vowel reduction'.
گلناز مدرسی قوامی
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Spatial Features for Multi-Font/Multi-Size Kannada Numerals and Vowels Recognition [PDF]

arXiv, 2011
This paper presents multi-font/multi-size Kannada numerals and vowels recognition based on spatial features. Directional spatial features viz stroke density, stroke length and the number of stokes in an image are employed as potential features to characterize the printed Kannada numerals and vowels. Based on these features 1100 numerals and 1400 vowels
arxiv  

A New Approach to the Formant Measuring Problem

Proceedings, 2019
Formants are characteristic frequency components in human speech that are caused by resonances in the vocal tract during speech production. They are of primary concern in acoustic phonetics and speech recognition.
Marnix Van Soom, Bart de Boer
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Rediscovering the Co-occurrence Principles of Vowel Inventories: A Complex Network Approach [PDF]

arXiv, 2007
In this work, we attempt to capture patterns of co-occurrence across vowel systems and at the same time figure out the nature of the force leading to the emergence of such patterns. For this purpose we define a weighted network where the vowels are the nodes and an edge between two nodes (read vowels) signify their co-occurrence likelihood over the ...
arxiv  

Using phonetic constraints in acoustic-to-articulatory inversion [PDF]

Proceedings of Interspeech, 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (2005) 3217-3220, 2005
The goal of this work is to recover articulatory information from the speech signal by acoustic-to-articulatory inversion. One of the main difficulties with inversion is that the problem is underdetermined and inversion methods generally offer no guarantee on the phonetical realism of the inverse solutions.
arxiv  

A study of vowel nasalization using instantaneous spectra [PDF]

arXiv, 2020
Nasalization of vowels is a phenomenon where oral and nasal tracts participate simultaneously for the production of speech. Acoustic coupling of oral and nasal tracts results in a complex production system, which is subjected to a continuous changes owing to glottal activity.
arxiv  

Acoustic Analyses of L1 and L2 Vowel Interactions in Mandarin–Cantonese Late Bilinguals

Acoustics
While the focus of bilingual research is frequently on simultaneous or early bilingualism, the interactions between late bilinguals’ first language (L1) and second language (L2) have rarely been studied previously.
Yike Yang
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