Showing papers in "Journal of Phonetics in 1998"

TL;DR: The authors found that the H is consistently aligned just after the onset of the first post-accentual vowel in pre-nuclear pre-nucleus accents, and that the alignment of the H was not affected by variations in the duration of the accented syllable.

TL;DR: Speech cycling, a novel experimental vehicle for investigating rhythmic constraints, is introduced and it is demonstrated that the hierarchical nesting of metrical levels arises inevitably within a repetition task, and what is more, the construction of individual prosodic units depends to some extent on the resulting rhythmic pattern.

TL;DR: This article assessed the contribution of various phonetic and phonological factors to the perception of global foreign accent in Spanish speakers of fluent but heavily accented English recorded English phrases containing sounds or sequences of sounds whose production is characteristically difficult for native speakers of Spanish.

TL;DR: This modeling suggests that although lowered gestural stiffness is the main source of lengthening, another parameter—a rise-time for gestural activation—is also necessary.

TL;DR: This article examined the relationship between VOT and vowel duration across changes in speaking rate and found that as speaking rate slows both voice-onset time (VOT) and vowel length increase in almost equal proportions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that an increase in speech rate affects French intonation in both the phonetic realization of the f 0 contour and the prosodic organization of a text.

TL;DR: This paper examined Japanese speakers' perceptual assimilation of 11 American English (AE) vowels produced by four male speakers in two sets of materials: /hVba/ disyllables spoken in citation-form (lists) and in syllables embedded in a short carrier sentence.

TL;DR: The authors showed that English and German differ in the realization of phrase-final rising and falling pitch accents when accents are associated with segmental material which offers successively less scope for voicing.

TL;DR: In this article, a set of ten vowel area functions, based on MRI measurements, has been parameterized by an "empirical orthogonal mode decomposition" which accurately represents each area function as the sum of the mean area function and proportional amounts of a series of Orthogonal basis functions.

TL;DR: Transcriptions and lingual measurements suggest that the difference between flaps and [d] is associated with gradient differences in lingual positioning, but some articulatory correlates of perceived flapping correspond to predictions of a model of increased co-production of vowels and consonants yielding lenited stops heard as flaps, but others do not.

TL;DR: The authors showed that speakers within one language may not all produce the coronal consonants at the same place of articulation on the palate or with the same point of constriction on the tongue.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an acoustic characterization of a stable phonetic contrast across a number of variable dimensions such as vowel context, gender, language, and phonological status.

TL;DR: This paper examined the behavior of the lower edge of the tonal space (i.e., the L points or minima found between F0peaks) in Spanish downstepping F0 contours as a function of the following four linguistic factors: (1) the F0height of surrounding peaks, (2) the temporal interval from L points to preceding peaks, and (3) phrasal length and position.

TL;DR: In this article, a longitudinal analysis of children's speech production was conducted and the authors investigated the relationships among a number of aspects of speech production development, including fundamental frequency, the first three formant frequencies of the vowel, and syllable duration.

TL;DR: This paper examined the course of the perceptual development of the /r-w/ contrast and found a significant shift in the phonemic boundary with age, as well as an increase in both the slope-steepness of the identification curve and the consistency of the responses as a function of age, indicated progressive development in phonemic perception.

TL;DR: In this paper, a recording of an original, somewhat androgynous female voice had been manipulated by means of up-scaling and downscaling of formant frequencies so as to simulate a female and a male speaker, elicited significantly different prominence judgements from listeners.

TL;DR: This paper studied the durational properties of minimal Dutch word pairs containing long and short vowels as a specific case study of the mapping between phonological and phonetic notions of timing and found that the presence of a short vowel results in a compensation of approximately 25 ms, which is distributed across the segments following that vowel.