Showing papers in "Journal of Phonetics in 2017"

TL;DR: A set of terms for the most important aspects of VOT and a set of Praat labels that could provide some consistency for future cross-study analyses are proposed.

TL;DR: Evidence that variation across talkers in the realization of American English stop consonants is highly structured is provided, which supports a uniformity constraint on the talker-specific realization of a phonetic property, such as glottal spreading, that is shared by multiple speech sounds.

TL;DR: This paper proposed generalized additive modeling (GAAM) to take into account the non-linear patterns over time while simultaneously taking into account subject and item-related variability in phonetics data.

TL;DR: It is argued for an integrated analysis of the discrete phonological pitch accents and the modulation of continuous phonetic parameters that characterise them, and a striking similarity across speakers is observed.

TL;DR: The systematic coarticulatory variation as a function of prosodic factors indicates that V-nasalization as a coartsiculatory process is indeed under speaker control, fine-tuned in a linguistically significant way.

TL;DR: It is shown that both prefixes geminate, contra large parts of the literature, and there is a difference in nasal duration between un, negative in- and locative in-.

TL;DR: It is argued that speakers add/delete prosodic boundaries to enhance the phonological contrast between different bracketings in the experimental task, though listeners show different sensitivity to the three acoustic cues.

TL;DR: The aim of this opinion article is to identify the currently scarce theoretical and clinical avenues for cross-linguistic studies of dysarthria in Parkinson’s disease, and to establish guidelines that would lead future research in this direction.

TL;DR: A complex and multifaceted relationship between representations used to produce and perceive speech is suggested, indicating more veridical perceptual response patterns were observed across participants in context-inappropriate coarticulatory conditions.

TL;DR: It is suggested that contrastive hyperarticulation is phonetically specific, increasing the perceptual distance between target and competitor.

TL;DR: A model based on principles of self-organizing dynamical systems is provided to account for the Spanish-English phonetic drift findings and the Portuguese-English findings.

TL;DR: The results support the idea that Catalan speakers use a phonetic mitigation strategy involving various prosodic correlates, and entertain the hypothesis that prosodic mitigation may well play a strong role in marking politeness cross-linguistically.

TL;DR: This study investigates the timing of word-initial clusters and its relation to distinct phonological syllable parses in Tashlhiyt Berber and Polish and reveals that variability plays a different role in the two languages.

TL;DR: Children’s dialect perception abilities showed incremental improvement through childhood and adolescence, with major developmental improvements in dialect classification accuracy observed in middle childhood, late childhood, and in the teenage years, when adult-like abilities were reached.

TL;DR: This study finds that nasalization, breathiness, and tongue height are used in idiosyncratic ways to distinguish F1 for each vowel pair, and that increased nasalization and breathiness significantly predict F1-lowering for all three nasal vowels.

TL;DR: The characteristics of late-L2 Spanish–English bilingual IDS may create a complex phonetic environment for infants, which may in turn affect the perception and later production of stop consonants in dual language-learning infants.

TL;DR: Both static and dynamic spectral features were affected by L1–L2 interactions, which suggested an assimilatory process.

TL;DR: Data is presented on the durational and timing characteristics of Russian onset clusters and their change as a function of speaking rate and whether a cluster's signal modulation profile, taken as an index of auditory recoverability, predicts the degree to which the overlap pattern of a cluster changes with rate.

TL;DR: The hypothesis that the association between cars and Lombard speech will trigger Lombard-like speaking and listening behaviour when a person is physically present in a car, even in the absence of noise is examined.

TL;DR: It is explained what historical factors may have led to laxing and phonological harmony, and what synchronic motivations these processes may have, to offer insight on sound change from varied temporal perspectives.

TL;DR: It is discussed how this interaction between articulator dominance and temporal overlap can be modeled within the gestural approach to syllable organization by giving a novel interpretation to the coupling strength parameter in terms of coarticulation resistance.

TL;DR: An extension of the coupled oscillators model of articulatory coordination is presented to account for fluctuations in exertive mechanisms and evidence for low- and high-exertion states of production is obtained.

TL;DR: The study shows that speakers produce intended intonation patterns by varying the type and magnitude of cues depending on speech mode, and reveals significant differences in spectral properties of both utterance-final vowels and consonants across statements and polar questions.

TL;DR: The results indicate that Korean listeners’ experience with English influences how they perform the task of borrowing, or adding a case-marker suffix to, English non-words, which is proposed to be responsible for the seemingly random variation in loanword adaptation patterns.

TL;DR: It is argued that the prosodic differences could be due to an effect of Turkish on Dutch prosody, suggesting that the weaker L1 in Turkish heritage speakers may affect the dominant L2 in the Prosodic domain.

TL;DR: It is shown that many aspects of the discrete, time-invariant phonological description can be predicted from observed variable continuous phonetic functions, using the principle of least squares and recurrent neural networks.

TL;DR: The results revealed more extreme regional dialect variants in reduction-promoting contexts, consistent with previous research, but substantial variability in phonetic reduction and its interaction with dialect variation was also observed across linguistic contexts, vowel categories, and acoustic domains (temporal vs. spectral).

TL;DR: This introductory paper touches on some basic theoretical groundings of speech dynamics, and discusses the significance of the contributions made by each paper of the special issue under the rubric of mechanisms of regulation in speech.

TL;DR: It is shown that the place feature is most often recruited to distinguish nouns in the French lexicon, while voicing and manner are exploited equally often, and that manner contrasts have the highest baseline perceptual salience, while there is no difference between place and voicing.

TL;DR: In some North American English varieties the diphthong /aɪ/ has developed a distinctively higher nucleus before voiceless consonants and also before a flaps, known as Canadian Raising, as it was first described for Canadian English.