Can [sonorant] spread?

Why Can We See a Local Spread of Chikungunya Virus (CHIKV) Infection?

The feature [sonorant] in lexical access

Does the feature [sonorant] influence access to lexical entries? We created two nonwords by replacing a fricative in a real word with either another fricative (match condition) or a resonant (mismatch condition). Participants heard the nonwords and were asked to recover the real word. Errors were greater in the mismatch condition, suggesting that [-sonorant] is represented in the target fricati...

Prosodic conditioning of pre-sonorant voicing

The present study investigates the influence of prosodic structure on pre-sonorant voicing in Slovak. Our results demonstrate that prosodic boundaries as well as accent interact in a meaningful way with voicing assimilation. If a major boundary intervenes, the role of accent is eliminated, while in other contexts the presence of contrastive focus induces less voicing. A novel finding of the stu...

Constraints on the Metathesis of Sonorant Consonants in Judeo-Spanish

Judeo-Spanish denotes those varieties of Spanish preserved by the Sephardic Jews who were expelled from Spain in 1492 and have emigrated throughout Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and the United States. This paper examines three types of consonant metathesis in Judeo-Spanish: daldo < dadlo ‘give it’, terné ‘I will have’ < tener ‘to have’, and tadre < tarde ‘late, afternoon’. The first tw...

Robust features for sonorant segmentation in continuous speech

Sonorant segmentation of speech signals is critical in developing Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems, audio search systems and for automatic segmentation of speech corpora. In this work, acoustic features based on excitation source and vocal tract system characteristics of sonorant sounds are proposed for segmentation of sonorant regions in continuous speech. The features are based on z...