Discovering Phonemes of Bidayuh

Predicting phonemes

Perceptual distribution of merging phonemes

This study seeks to map the perceptual vowel space of front vowel phonemes undergoing merger before voiced velars in Pacific Northwest English (PNWE). In production, most speakers spectrally merge /Eg, eg/ at a point between their non-prevelar counterparts /E, e/, but the height of /æg/ is more variable. With variable production in the speech community, a question of perception arises: do North...

Phonemes and phonology

• These sounds are grouped into closely related families of sounds; each such family acts as a single unit from a phonemic point of view. We call these families “phonemes,” and in some respects we are more aware of these phonemes than we are of the very sounds themselves. A word can be viewed as a sequence of sounds, or as a sequence of phonemes. Neither view is more correct; they are at differ...

On the Syllabification of Phonemes

Syllables play an important role in speech synthesis and recognition. We present several different approaches to the syllabification of phonemes. We investigate approaches based on linguistic theories of syllabification, as well as a discriminative learning technique that combines Support Vector Machine and Hidden Markov Model technologies. Our experiments on English, Dutch and German demonstra...

EEG-Based Discrimination of Imagined Speech Phonemes

This paper reports positive results for classifying imagined phonemes on the basis of EEG signals. Subjects generated in imagination five types of phonemes that differ in their primary manner of vocal articulation during overt speech production (jaw, tongue, nasal, lips and fricative). Naive Bayes and linear discriminant analysis classification methods were applied to EEG signals that were reco...