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Showing papers in "Journal of Phonetics in 2010"


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TL;DR: This paper explores durational aspects of pauses gaps and overlaps in three different conversational corpora with a view to challenge claims about precision timing in turn-taking Distributions of p distributions.

390 citations


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TL;DR: It is claimed that phonological features are extracted from the variable acoustic signal based on broad acoustic properties and a three-way matching algorithm maps these features onto highly abstract phonological mental representations.

160 citations


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TL;DR: Three aspects of a theory of speech production and perception: quantal theory, enhancement, and overlap are explored, showing that even though rapid speech phenomena can obliterate defining quantal information from the speech stream, nonetheless that information is recoverable from the enhancement history of the segment.

142 citations


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TL;DR: The results show that the positions of the identification boundaries do not differ significantly across the 3 groups of listeners, i.e., Mandarin, Cantonese, and German, but that the boundary widths do differ significantly between tone language and non-tone language listeners.

131 citations


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TL;DR: In a sequence recall task with adult speakers of five languages with predictable stress and one language with non-predictable stress, it was found that speakers of all languages except Polish exhibited a strong stress “Deafness”, while Spanish speakers exhibited no such “deafnesses”.

104 citations


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TL;DR: Results showed that Gujaratis did better at distinguishing phonation in other languages/dialects and were more consistent and cross-linguistically, H1−H2, which is correlated with the open quotient, is the most successful measure of phonation.

103 citations


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Yi Xu1
TL;DR: It is argued that few of the stereotyped characteristics associated with lab speech are warranted and the quality of lab speech is a design issue rather than a matter of fundamental limitation.

84 citations


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TL;DR: An acoustic analysis of alveolar laterals in two contact languages (Catalan and Spanish) as produced by two groups of Catalan–Spanish bilinguals residing on Majorca shows that bilinguals tend to transfer the phonetic features of the sound categories of their native language to their non-native one even after having had early and extensive exposure to native input in their non -dominant language.

79 citations


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TL;DR: Results are interpreted as evidence that bilingual speakers possess phonetic categories for voiced versus voiceless stops that are specific to each language, but are influenced by positional context differently in their second than in their first language.

77 citations


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TL;DR: While Russian monolingual speakers produced significant durational differences in closure/frication duration and release duration, native Russians with knowledge of English in addition maintained a difference through vowel duration and duration of voicing into closure/ frication.

77 citations


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TL;DR: Multinomial logistic regression models are constructed to test the power of target vowel F1 and F2 for predicting C and V2 of the upcoming context, and MLR is discussed as a model of the parsing mechanism in speech perception.

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TL;DR: There is strong evidence of polysyllabic shortening in accented words, an effect of comparable magnitude in right-headed and left-headed words, and evidence, supporting previous studies, of domain-edge effects localised to specific sub-syllABic constituents.

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TL;DR: While the presence of text improves performance, the patterns of accuracy are still largely the same for both audio+text and audio-only input, suggesting that the underlying mechanisms responsible for speech production are independent of input modality.

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TL;DR: Categorical resyllabification of a word-final /l/ segment based on phonotactic acceptability is rejected and a gestural-episodic model is proposed, in which individual gestures display different levels of coherence in lexical syllable roles, while in connected speech, segmental sequences are influenced by similarity to well-rehearsed lexical sequences, if they exist.

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TL;DR: Investigating whether newsreaders exploit their expressive style for signalling different types of communicatively relevant information and whether these speakers use their facial expressions to “package” the content of their messages so that they reflect the relative importance, the emotional connotation and the intended audience of the news items.

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TL;DR: The general conclusion is that a categorical neutralization model is insufficient to account for stop voicing perception in German in a domain-final context: instead, voicing perceptibility in these contexts depends on an interaction between acoustic information and phonological knowledge which emerges as a generalization across the lexicon.

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TL;DR: Sign lowering occurred for all signers, according to the factors the authors manipulated, and interesting variations in sign production were discovered, which could underlie distinctions in signing style, analogous to accent or voice quality in speech.

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TL;DR: New evidence in support of the phonetic basis of the distinctive feature [±back] is presented and it is found that Sg2 provides a reliable boundary between front and back vowels for children of all ages, as well as for adults, whereas F3–3.5 bark provides a similarly reliable boundary only for older children and adults.

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TL;DR: Results suggest that phonetic learning may involve two distinct cognitive processes that function to shift selective attention between separable acoustic dimensions, and cue-specific training appears to be more effective for the acquisition of second language speech contrasts.

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TL;DR: It was discovered that females flapped more often than males and that participants were more likely to flap when they were less aware of the contrast between /t/ and /d/.

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TL;DR: The weight Mandarin learners and native speakers of English gave to vowel quality as a cue to English lexical stress in comparison to that given to f0, duration and intensity under natural and flat pitch contour conditions is compared to provide new insight into the relationship between production and perception in second language speech learning.

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TL;DR: The results suggest that the development of categorization performance starts around the boundary and is followed by decreased near the prototypes, and that the effect of age on boundary precision does not show an effect on either boundary location or on categorical perception.

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TL;DR: Native speakers of Gujarati, Thai, and English discriminated among pairs of voices that differed only in the relative amplitudes of the first versus second harmonics (H1-H2), indicating that speakers of Gujaratati were more sensitive to changes than are speakers of Thai or English.

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TL;DR: The results showed significant differences between the alveolar and palato-alveolar fricatives for both the mean and skewness values, and suggested that intra-speaker overlap in spectral mean between prevocalic /s/ and /ʃ/ targets may be indicative of abnormal fricative production and a useful measure for clinical applications.

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TL;DR: The interplay between segmental and prosodic timing effects indicates that the internal structure of clusters shows linguistically crucial and highly constrained timing patterns which can only vary within certain limits.

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TL;DR: In this article, two speech perception experiments explored the auditory basis of distinctive features and concluded that phonetic similarity is comprised of three components: (1) auditory similarity, (2) phonetic inventory and (3) language-specific patterns of alternation.

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TL;DR: It is suggested that musical experience sharpened the perception of pitch among musicians, but that the auditory systems of both groups are experience-dependent and comparably malleable.

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TL;DR: The authors investigated the phonetic expression of the contrast between non-palatalized and palatalized trills that has been lost in most Slavic languages and found that the contrast is stabilized through resistance to coarticulation between the trill and surrounding vowels and prosodic positional weakening effects.

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TL;DR: It is shown that there is evidence that at least some speakers of Tswana have an active, productive process of post-nasal devoicing, and the data also show evidence that this phonetically unnatural system is unstable, and is in fact in the process of changing towards a more natural system.

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TL;DR: Evidence is provided that distinctive articulatory information for vowels can be recovered from the acoustic signal using a novel technique that uses formant frequencies and amplitudes, and does not depend on a principal components analysis of the articulatory data, as do most other inversion techniques.