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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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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 +1 more
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Is Metrical Foot a Phonetic Object? [PDF]
, 2010 The assumption behind this pilot study is that metrical feet are not ‘groups of syllables’ or ‘interstress intervals’ but rather ‘groups of vowels’ extracted from the phonetic material contained between two stresses.
Ciszewski, Tomasz
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Phonemes in continuous speech are better recognized in context than in isolation
Frontiers in Communication, 2022 The contribution of context to phoneme perception is a subject of extensive study. In recent years, while the perception of phonemes in and out of context has become characterized as well-understood, new studies have emerged to challenge prevailing ...
Annemarie C. Brown +4 more
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Individual differences in the discrimination of novel speech sounds: effects of sex, temporal processing, musical and cognitive abilities [PDF]
, 2012 This study examined whether rapid temporal auditory processing, verbal working memory capacity, non-verbal intelligence, executive functioning, musical ability and prior foreign language experience predicted how well native English speakers (N = 120 ...
Brooks, Patricia J. +4 more
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Function and Disability Journal, 2018 Background and Objective: One of the positive outcomes of cochlear implantation is achieving intelligible speech. Therefore, the measurement of speech intelligibility is a standard criterion for assessing the effectiveness of cochlear implants (CIs). The
Mitra Sohrabi +4 more
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Fundamental study on the sounds of standard Baltic languages: phonetic and phonological differences
Lietuvių Kalba, 2020 The article discusses the most important differences in the sound structure of contemporary Lithuanian and Latvian standard languages, scientific and practical benefits of a fundamental comparative instrumental sound research, reviews possible further ...
Jurgita Jaroslavienė +1 more
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Vowel Shortening in Central Kurdish: An Analysis Based on the Principles of Optimality Phonology [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2019 In the present descriptive-analytical study, the researchers investigate vowel shortening process in Central Kurdish based on the principles and methods of optimality phonology. Data analysis indicates that this process along with glide formation is used
Mehran Ahmadi +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 In many communities around the world, speech to infants (IDS) and small children (CDS) has increased mean pitch, increased pitch range, increased vowel duration, and vowel hyper-articulation when compared to speech directed to adults (ADS). Some of these
Hannah S. Sarvasy +6 more
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Airflow in stop-vowel sequences of German [PDF]
, 2009 This study reports on the results of an airflow experiment that measured the duration of airflow and the amount of air from release of a stop to the beginning of a following vowel in stop vowel-sequences of ...
Hamann, Silke, Velkov, Hristo
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