The forensic task which phoneticians are most generally asked to perform is speaker identification. Usually the police want to know if a suspect is the speaker on an incriminating recording. Given the plasticity of the voice, and the variability of the relationship between speech and the ‘machine’ producing it (the speaker), phoneticians often shy away from identification and prefer to talk in ...

1 This work would not have been possible without the generous cooperation of the speakers who shared their knowledge of their language, and the hospitality of the community. This paper presents results of a phonetic study of the vowel system of Paici) , an Austronesian language of central New Caledonia. The Paici) vowel system is of phonetic interest for both its three-way lexical tone contrast...

The theory of Functional Discourse Grammar assumes that the structure of linguistic items is to a large extent determined by their use, but this idea has not yet been fleshed out in the realm of phonology and phonetics. The present paper aims to address this void, and argues that FDG should be extended with a fifth level of representation, namely a Phonetic Level. With this addition, the model ...

Sign language activates the auditory cortex of deaf subjects, which is evidence of cross-modal plasticity. Lip-reading (visual phonetics), which involves audio-visual integration, activates the auditory cortex of hearing subjects. To test whether audio-visual cross-modal plasticity occurs within areas involved in cross-modal integration, we used functional MRI to study seven prelingual deaf sig...

Kim, Hyung-Soo. 2008. The phonetics and phonology of vowel length variation in Korean reduplicated ideophones. Studies in Phonetics, Phonology and Morphology 14.2. 39-60. Reduplicated ideophones in Korean present interesting problems in phonetics and phonology of vowel length variation. The vowel in the first syllable is short in the partially reduplicated type, e.g. sa ̆lɨlɨ ‘gently’, but long ...

in the books written on rhetorics, figures of speech, and literary terms one may find different non-systematic classifications of puns. some of these methods have been translated from the arabic literary texts. some other classifications are based on phonetics and phonology. in this research after surveying the common methods of classification, it has been tried to put forward certain new scien...

Results from two experiments on acquisition of the word initial voicing contrast are compared, one on perception, one on production. Both involved monolingual and bilingual (French/English) subjects. Monolinguals are shown to have frequent disparities between their use of parameters in production and perception. Furthermore, bilingualism is found to affect subjects' production and their percept...

The objective of this project is to develop a robust and high-performance speech recognitiotl system using a segment-based approach to phonetic recognition. The recognition system will eventually be integrated with natural language processing to achieve spoken lallguagc understanding. Developed a phonetic recognition front-end and achieved 77% and 71% classiilcatiou accuracy under speaker-depen...

Chapter 2: Phonetics and Phonology ......................................................................................... 6 Chapter 3: Morphology ............................................................................................................ 18 Chapter 4: Syntax ..................................................................................................................... ...