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Vowel Shortening in Central Kurdish: An Analysis Based on the Principles of Optimality Phonology [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات 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
doaj   +1 more source

Vowel acoustics of Nungon child-directed speech, adult dyadic conversation, and foreigner-directed monologues

open access: yesFrontiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

Verification of feature regions for stops and fricatives in natural speech [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The presence of acoustic cues and their importance in speech perception have long remained debatable topics. In spite of several studies that exist in this eld, very little is known about what exactly humans perceive in speech.
Menon, Anjali I.
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Stressed vowel duration and phonemic length contrast [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
As far as phonemic length contrast is concerned, we observe a high degree of durational overlap between phonemically long and short vowels in monosyllabic CVC words (which is enforced by a greater pitch excursion), whereas in polysyllables the ...
Ciszewski, Tomasz
core   +1 more source

Tibetan Data Augmentation via GAN‐Based Handwritten Text Generation

open access: yesCAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Increased awareness of Tibetan cultural preservation, along with technological advancements, has led to significant efforts in academic research on Tibetan. However, the structural complexity of the Tibetan language and limited labeled handwriting data impede advancements in Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and other applications.
Dorje Tashi   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of phonetic/phonological perception of the English monophthongs at tertiary level [PDF]

open access: yesZbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2017
The paper discusses phonological competences of students of the first and fourth year of the Department of English Language and Literature at Faculty of Philosophy in Kosovska Mitrovica. Students ability to identify relevant elements of the English vowel
Dančetović Nikola N.
doaj   +1 more source

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

open access: yes, 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 ...
Laprie, Yves, Potard, Blaise
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Machine Assisted Analysis of Vowel Length Contrasts in Wolof

open access: yes, 2017
Growing digital archives and improving algorithms for automatic analysis of text and speech create new research opportunities for fundamental research in phonetics. Such empirical approaches allow statistical evaluation of a much larger set of hypothesis
Besacier, Laurent   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

A Typology of Spreading, Insertion and Deletion or What You Weren’t Told About Raddoppiamento Sintattico in Italian [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
This paper focuses on the description and analysis of the external sandhi phenomenon of raddoppiamento sintattico (hereafter RS) in Italian, sometimes referred to as word-initial gemination, for example: (1) No RS due cani [duùe kaùni] ‘two ...
Absalom, Matthew   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Some Features of Vowel and Consonant Systems in Mid-Mongolian Language: towards a Problem of Inherited and Acquired (based on the Dictionary «Mukaddimat Al Adab»)

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2018
The article deals with some of the phonetic features of medieval Mongolian language in the context of language contacts and linguageographical analysis. The author focuses on the issues related to the development problems of historical phonetics of vowel
Nikolay Badgaev
doaj  

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