Search Results - "Gubian, Michele"

Does that sound right? A novel method of evaluating models of reading aloud by Gubian Michele, Ryan, Blything, Davis, Colin J, Bowers, Jeffrey S

“…Nonword pronunciation is a critical challenge for models of reading aloud but little attention has been given to identifying the best method for assessing…”
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The relationship between the coarticulatory source and effect in sound change: evidence from Italo-Romance metaphony in the Lausberg area by Jonathan Harrington, Michele Gubian, Pia Greca

“…In ongoing sound changes, a coarticulatory effect is often enhanced as the coarticulatory source that gives rise to it wanes. But quite how phonologisation and…”
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Using Mahalanobis Distances to Investigate Second Dialect Acquisition: A Study on Quebec French by Riverin-Coutlée, Josiane, Roy, Johanna-Pascale, Gubian, Michele

“…Second dialect acquisition (SDA) can be defined as the process through which geographically mobile individuals adapt to new dialect features of their first…”
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“Excuse meeee!!”: (Mis)coordination of lexical and paralinguistic prosody in L2 hyperarticulation by Asano, Yuki, Gubian, Michele

“…The present study investigates how first language (L1) and second language (L2) speakers coordinate lexical and paralinguistic prosody (lexically determined…”
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Phonetic and phonological sound changes in an agent-based model by Gubian, Michele, Cronenberg, Johanna, Harrington, Jonathan

“…The focus of the study is an agent-based model (ABM) concerned with simulating phonological stability and change using real speech data from a population of…”
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The prosody of theme, rheme and focus in Egyptian Arabic: A quantitative investigation of tunes, configurations and speaker variability by El Zarka, Dina, Kelterer, Anneliese, Gubian, Michele, Schuppler, Barbara

“…•first analysis of prosodic configurations mapped to information structural categories in Egyptian Arabic.•statistical analysis of holistic f0 contours with…”
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Phonetic change in an Antarctic winter by Harrington, Jonathan, Gubian, Michele, Stevens, Mary, Schiel, Florian

“…An acoustic analysis was made of the speech characteristics of individuals recorded before and during a prolonged stay in Antarctica. A computational model was…”
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Using Functional Data Analysis for investigating multidimensional dynamic phonetic contrasts by Gubian, Michele, Torreira, Francisco, Boves, Lou

“…The study of phonetic contrasts and related phenomena, e.g. inter- and intra-speaker variability, often requires to analyse data in the form of measured time…”
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Vowel height and velum position in German: Insights from a real-time magnetic resonance imaging study by Kunay, Esther, Hoole, Philip, Gubian, Michele, Harrington, Jonathan, Jospeh, Arun, Voit, Dirk, Frahm, Jens

“…Velum position was analysed as a function of vowel height in German tense and lax vowels preceding a nasal or oral consonant. Findings from previous research…”
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A dynamic model of the change from pre- to post-aspiration in Andalusian Spanish by Cronenberg, Johanna, Gubian, Michele, Harrington, Jonathan, Ruch, Hanna

“…•Pre- and post-aspiration in Andalusian Spanish /sp, st, sk/ are in a trade-off.•The trade-off is predictable from closure timing as found by functional…”
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Does that sound right? A novel method of evaluating models of reading aloud: Rating nonword pronunciations by Gubian, Michele, Blything, Ryan, Davis, Colin J., Bowers, Jeffrey S.

“…Nonword pronunciation is a critical challenge for models of reading aloud but little attention has been given to identifying the best method for assessing…”
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A data-driven assessment of harmony in Quebec French [e] and [ε] by Riverin-Coutlée, Josiane, Gubian, Michele

“…This study is concerned with the aperture of the mid vowel /E/ in nonfinal syllables in Quebec French. The hypothesis tested is that in underived disyllabic…”
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Statistics in Phonetics by Tavakoli, Shahin, Matteo, Beatrice, Pigoli, Davide, Chodroff, Eleanor, Coleman, John, Gubian, Michele, Renwick, Margaret E.L., Sonderegger, Morgan

“…Phonetics is the scientific field concerned with the study of how speech is produced, heard, and perceived. It abounds with data, such as acoustic speech…”
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Comparing single-unit recordings taken from a localist model to single-cell recording data: a good match by Gubian, Michele, Davis, Colin J., Adelman, James S., Bowers, Jeffrey S.

“…Single-cell recording studies show that some neurons respond to complex visual information (e.g. words, objects, faces) in a highly selective manner, with…”
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Joint analysis of f0 and speech rate with Functional Data Analysis by Gubian, Michele, Boves, Lou, Cangemi, Francesco

“…In this work we propose the use of Functional Data Analysis (FDA) as a powerful methodology to tackle problems where multiple continuous speech parameters have…”
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Analysis of acoustic reduction using spectral similarity measures by Hämäläinen, Annika, Gubian, Michele, ten Bosch, Louis, Boves, Lou

“…Articulatory and acoustic reduction can manifest itself in the temporal and spectral domains. This study introduces a measure of spectral reduction, which is…”
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A Study on Uncertainty-Complexity Tradeoffs for Dynamic Nonlinear Sensor Compensation by Gubian, M., Marconato, A., Boni, A., Petri, D.

“…In this paper, we focus on the design of reduced-complexity sensor compensation modules based on learning-from-examples techniques. A multiobjective…”
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Uncertainty-Aware Design Criteria for the Classification of Sensor Data by Gubian, Michele, Marconato, Anna, Boni, Andrea, Petri, Dario

“…The design of low-cost distributed real-time classifiers whose inputs are the physical data from the environment is an issue of major interest in the emerging…”
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Statistics in Phonetics by Tavakoli, Shahin, Matteo, Beatrice, Pigoli, Davide, Chodroff, Eleanor, Coleman, John, Gubian, Michele, Renwick, Margaret E. L, Sonderegger, Morgan

“…Phonetics is the scientific field concerned with the study of how speech is produced, heard and perceived. It abounds with data, such as acoustic speech…”
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Accurate and Resource-Aware Classification Based on Measurement Data by Marconato, A., Gubian, M., Boni, A., Caprile, B.G., Petri, D.

“…In this paper, we face the problem of designing accurate decision-making modules in measurement systems that need to be implemented on resource-constrained…”
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