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Vowel Shortening in Central Kurdish: An Analysis Based on the Principles of Optimality Phonology [PDF]
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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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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Verification of feature regions for stops and fricatives in natural speech [PDF]
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]
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
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Tibetan Data Augmentation via GAN‐Based Handwritten Text Generation
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
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Analysis of phonetic/phonological perception of the English monophthongs at tertiary level [PDF]
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.
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Using phonetic constraints in acoustic-to-articulatory inversion [PDF]
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
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
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A Typology of Spreading, Insertion and Deletion or What You Weren’t Told About Raddoppiamento Sintattico in Italian [PDF]
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
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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
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