Search Results - "Phonetica"

The Mason-Alberta Phonetic Segmenter: a forced alignment system based on deep neural networks and interpolation by Kelley, Matthew C, Perry, Scott James, Tucker, Benjamin V

“…Given an orthographic transcription, forced alignment systems automatically determine boundaries between segments in speech, facilitating the use of large…”
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Tracey M. Derwing, Murray J. Munro, Ron I. Thomson: The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Speaking by Wang, Xingtong, Yan, Mengzhu

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Sound Symbolic Patterns in Pokémon Names by Kawahara, Shigeto, Noto, Atsushi, Kumagai, Gakuji

“…This paper presents a case study of sound symbolism, cases in which certain sounds tend to be associated with particular meanings. We used the corpus of all…”
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The development of English language connected speech perception skills: an empirical study on Chinese EFL children by Bi, Huichao, Zare, Samad, Yan, Rong

“…Connected speech processes (CSPs) occur randomly in everyday conversations of native speakers; however, such phonological variations can bring about challenges…”
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Matilde Vida-Castro and Antonio Manuel Ávila-Muñoz: The Continuity of Linguistic Change by Zeng, Hangli

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Revisiting the nature and the context of T4 alternations: insights from disyllabic, trisyllabic and quadrisyllabic word/digit productions in Taiwan Mandarin by Liu, Chin-Ting

“…The tone values of a Tone 4 (T4) syllable are conventionally assumed to change from '51' to '53' when the syllable is followed by another T4 syllable in…”
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Perception of illusory clusters: the role of native timing by Kwon, Harim, Chitoran, Ioana

“…We explore the influence of native timing patterns on nonnative speech perception, by asking whether a nonnative CVCV sequence can be perceived as CCV when the…”
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On the two rhotic schwas in Southwestern Mandarin: when homophony meets morphology in articulation by Huang, Jing, Hsieh, Feng-Fan, Chang, Yueh-Chin, Tiede, Mark

“…This is an acoustic and articulatory study of the two rhotic schwas in Southwestern Mandarin (SWM), i.e., the -suffix (a functional morpheme) and the rhotic…”
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To stress or not to stress: what can Mandarin pronouns inform us of the accessibility of topic and focus? by Zhu, Conghui, Wu, Fuyun

“…Referents with a topical or focused status have been shown to be preferable antecedents in real-time resolution of pronouns. However, it remains unclear…”
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Variability in cross-language and cross-dialect perception. How Irish and Chinese migrants process Australian English vowels by Diskin-Holdaway, Chloé, Loakes, Debbie, Clothier, Josh

“…We investigate how three adult groups - experienced L2 English listeners; experienced D2 (second dialect) listeners; and native L1/D1 listeners - categorise…”
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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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Robustness of lateral tongue bracing under bite block perturbation by Liu, Yadong, Luo, Sophia, Łuszczuk, Monika, Mayer, Connor, Shamei, Arian, de Boer, Gillian, Gick, Bryan

“…Lateral tongue bracing is a lingual posture in which the sides of the tongue are held against the palate and upper molars, and has been observed…”
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Word-level prosodic and metrical influences on Hawaiian glottal stop realization by Davidson, Lisa, Parker Jones, Oiwi

“…Previous research on the phonetic realization of Hawaiian glottal stops has shown that it can be produced several ways, including with creaky voice, full…”
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Individual differences in attention control and the processing of phonological contrasts in a second language by Mora, Joan C, Darcy, Isabelle

“…This study investigated attention control in L2 phonological processing from a cognitive individual differences perspective, to determine its role in…”
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Transphonologization of onset voicing: revisiting Northern and Eastern Kmhmu by Kirby, James, Pittayaporn, Pittayawat, Brunelle, Marc

“…Phonation and vowel quality are often thought to play a vital role at the initial stage of tonogenesis. This paper investigates the production of voicing and…”
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Development of perceptual similarity and discriminability: the perception of Russian phonemes by Chinese learners by Yang, Yuxiao, Chen, Sunfu, Chen, Fei, Ma, Junzhou

“…This study explored the perceptual assimilation and discrimination of Russian phonemes by three groups of Chinese listeners with differing Russian learning…”
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Two-part vowel modifications in Child Directed Speech in Warlpiri may enhance child attention to speech and scaffold noun acquisition by Bundgaard-Nielsen, Rikke L, O'Shannessy, Carmel, Wang, Yizhou, Nelson, Alice, Bartlett, Jessie, Davis, Vanessa

“…Study 1 compared vowels in Child Directed Speech (CDS; child ages 25-46 months) to vowels in Adult Directed Speech (ADS) in natural conversation in the…”
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Acoustic Discriminability of the Complex Phonation System in !Xóõ by Garellek, Marc

“…Phonation types, or contrastive voice qualities, are minimally produced using complex movements of the vocal folds, but may additionally involve constriction…”
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Edge strengthening and phonetic variability in Spanish /l/: an ultrasound study by Ramsammy, Michael, King, Matthew

“…Previous research has shown that /l/ in Spanish displays patterns of articulatory variability that are determined by a complex interaction of phonetic,…”
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Difficulties in decoupling articulatory gestures in L2 phonemic sequences: the case of Mandarin listeners' perceptual deletion of English post-vocalic laterals by Wang, Yizhou, Bundgaard-Nielsen, Rikke L, Baker, Brett J, Maxwell, Olga

“…Nonnative or second language (L2) perception of segmental sequences is often characterised by perceptual modification processes, which may "repair" a nonnative…”
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