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Voice
About: Voice is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2393 publications have been published within this topic receiving 56637 citations.
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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.
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TL;DR: This paper found that release is predicted by the tenseness of the preceding vowel, and that release seems to function as a segment cue, as well as a voicing cue, when functioning as cues to [+ voice] in a post-vocalic, word-final stop.
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TL;DR: Eight hearing-impaired children participated in a study exploring the effect of training (+) or (-) voicing on generalization to cognates, and showed that 6 of the 8 children generalized both the voiced and unvoiced target sounds to 50% or more of the target sound probe items.
Abstract: Eight hearing-impaired children participated in a study exploring the effect of training (+) or (-) voicing on generalization to cognates. In an experimental multiple baseline study across behavior...
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TL;DR: It is argued that apparent transparency cases are best explained as resulting from an interaction of phonological, phonetic and lexical factors, including manner of articulation, segmental duration, prosodic boundary, and word size, which are known to affect the probability of vocal fold vibration and that systematic phonetic variation found in the data does not support the hypothesis that sonorants are transparent to laryngeal processes.
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TL;DR: The results in this study suggest that acoustic cues selected by considering the representation and production of speech may provide reliable criteria for determining consonant voicing.
Abstract: This research describes a module for detecting consonant voicing in a hierarchical speech recognition system. In this system, acoustic cues are used to infer values of features that describe phonetic segments. A first step in the process is examining consonant production and conditions for phonation, to find acoustic properties that may be used to infer consonant voicing. These are examined in different environments to determine a set of reliable acoustic cues. These acoustic cues include fundamental frequency, difference in amplitudes of the first two harmonics, cutoff first formant frequency, and residual amplitude of the first harmonic, around consonant landmarks. Classification experiments are conducted on hand and automatic measurements of these acoustic cues for isolated and continuous speech utterances. Voicing decisions are obtained for each consonant landmark, and are compared with lexical and perceived voicing for the consonant. Performance is found to improve when measurements at the closure and release are combined. Training on isolated utterances gives classification results for continuous speech that is comparable to training on continuous speech. The results in this study suggest that acoustic cues selected by considering the representation and production of speech may provide reliable criteria for determining consonant voicing.
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