Phonemes and production

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...

Predicting phonemes

Occurrence of consonant production errors in liquid phonemes in children with operated cleft lip and palate

UNLABELLED Information about the prevalence of consonant production errors, including compensatory articulations (CA), in individuals with cleft lip and palate (CLP) who speak Brazilian Portuguese is limited, particularly regarding liquid sounds. The literature primarily reports the occurrence of CA for plosive and fricative sounds, since occurrence of CAs in sounds that require higher amounts ...

Distinct representations of phonemes, syllables, and supra-syllabic sequences in the speech production network

Functional neuroimaging studies have converged on a core network of brain regions that supports speech production, but the sublexical processing stages performed by the different parts of this network remain unclear. Using an fMRI adaptation paradigm and quantitative analysis of patterns of activation rather than contrast subtractions alone, we were able to identify a set of neural substrates p...

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...