Glottalized sonorants: A phonetic universal?

Variability in the Product Sonorants: Data F

Phonetic variation in the realization of segments is increasingly recognized to have functional value in signalling matters such as constituency, but patterns of variation of rarer segment types are not as well known as those of common types such as plosives. This paper presents data on variation in production of glottalized sonorants in the Austronesian language Yapese. Initial glottalized son...

Coarticulation: A universal phonetic phenomenon with roots in deep time

Coarticulation is a universal feature of spoken languages. Many decades of experimental phonetic research have produced a large literature on the topic. However, despite many important contributions, we still lack an answer to the perhaps most fundamental question about coarticulation: Where does it come from? In keeping with the Frame/Content theory of speech evolution (MacNeilage 2008) our an...

Phonetic structures of Montana Salish

Montana Salish is an Interior Salishan language spoken on the Flathead reservation in Northwest Montana by an estimated population of about 40 speakers. This paper describes the basic phonetic characteristics of the language based on data from five speakers. Montana Salish contains a number of typologically unusual consonant types. including glottalized sonorants, prestopped laterals, and a ser...

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F0 parameterization of glottalized tones for HMM-based vietnamese TTS

A conventional HMM-based TTS system for Hanoi Vietnamese often suffers from the hoarse quality due to the incomplete F0 parameterization of glottalized tones. As estimating F0 in glottalization is rather problematic for usual F0 extractors, we propose a pitch marking algorithm where the pitch marks are propagated from regular regions of speech signal to glottalized one, from which the complete ...