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Perceptual assimilation and discrimination of non-native vowel contrasts by Tyler, Michael D, Best, Catherine T, Faber, Alice, Levitt, Andrea G

“…Research on language-specific tuning in speech perception has focused mainly on consonants, while that on non-native vowel perception has failed to address…”
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Lip protrusion in sibilant production by Faber, Alice

“…While anecdotal reports of lip protrusion contributing to sibilant production in a variety of languages exist, little attention has been paid to quantifying…”
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On the origin and development of Hebrew spirantization by Faber, A

“…Post-vocalic spirantization, attested in both Hebrew & Aramaic from the second half of the first millennium BCE, produces fricative variants of the stop…”
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The effect of consonant context on vowel goodness rating by Faber, Alice, Brown, Julie M.

“…The effect on within-category discrimination of supposed phonetic prototypes for the sounds of a given language depends on the assumption that the number of…”
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Congruence of articulatory and acoustic variability by Faber, Alice, Brown, Julie M.

“…Johnson et al. [J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 94, 701–714 (1993)] suggest, on the basis of observed inter-speaker variability in discriminant analyses of articulatory…”
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Acoustic 1996: Speech production parameters for automatic speech recognition by McGowan, Richard S., Faber, Alice

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The time course of labial gestures for sibilant articulations by Faber, Alice

“…Simultaneous investigation of lip position and linguo-palatal contact patterns for sibilants reveals that [∫] differs from [s] not only in its more posterior…”
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A narrative inquiry into perceptions of the development of self -determination by community college students with learning disabilities by Faber, Alice B

“…Individuals with disabilities have not traditionally had the same freedom of choice and control over their own lives as non-disabled individuals have had. This…”
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A narrative inquiry into perceptions of the development of self-determination by community college students with learning disabilities by Faber, Alice B

“…Individuals with disabilities have not traditionally had the same freedom of choice and control over their own lives as non-disabled individuals have had. This…”
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Assimilation of non-native vowel contrasts to the American English vowel system by Best, Catherine T., Faber, Alice, Levitt, Andrea

“…The perceptual assimilation model (PAM) [Best et al., JEP:HPP 14, 345–360 (1988)] predicts that two non-native sounds that are assimilated to the same nature…”
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Linguo-mandibular coordination in consonant production by Faber, Alice, Farnetani, Edda

“…The coordination between the jaw and tongue in regulating tongue position for consonant articulation was explored by simultaneous use of electropalatography…”
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The relation between dialect attribution and vowel judgments by Faber, Alice, Brancazio, Lawrence, Best, Catherine T.

“…A spoken word’s phonetic form provides information not only about the speaker’s intended message but also about the speaker’s language and/or dialect…”
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Introduction to papers on speech recognition and perception from an articulatory point of view by McGowan, Richard S., Faber, Alice

“…The following group of papers resulted from a special session entitled Speech Recognition and Perception from an Articulatory Point of View that was held…”
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Sentence final fricative spectrum variation as a function of prosodic context by McRoberts, Gerald W., Faber, Alice

“…The spectra of word final [s] in /CVCs/ words (where V is one of {a i o u} and C2 one of {k t}) in sentence final position for questions and statements…”
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Dialect differences in vowel production and perception by Faber, Alice, Best, Catherine T., Di Paolo, Marianna

“…Earlier work [Faber etal., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 94, 1865 (1994)] reported differences among American-English-speaking listeners from Utah and Connecticut/NY in…”
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The Discriminability of Nearly Merged Sounds by Faber, Alice, Di Paolo, Marianna

“…Argues that statistical analysis of the potential distinctiveness of near-merged contrastive pairs must simultaneously take into account several acoustical…”
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Akkadian Evidence for Proto-Semitic Affricates by Faber, Alice

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Variations in measured voice quality related to linguistic and nonlinguistic factors by McRoberts, Gerald W., Faber, Alice

“…Voice quality (VQ) in English has generally been treated as a suprasegmental, not varying across individual speech segments. Ladefoged [in Vocal Fold…”
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Relationship of recorded EMG signals to within- and cross-utterance acoustic variation by Faber, Alice, Raphael, Lawrence J.

“…Analysis of simultaneous acoustic and EMG recordings of one speaker of New York English producing /əpVp/ utterances under several conditions shows differences…”
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Some factors affecting vowel articulation by Faber, Alice, Raphael, Lawrence J.

“…As part of an extensive series of studies of tongue activity in vowel production and of the muscle activation patterns producing this activity, data were…”
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