Shaping new sounds

Shaping the new World Order

Acquiring New Speech Sounds by Clustering

Acquiring a second language phonetic contrast involves learning new sound categories from examples. Consequently, research in category learning should have important implications for research examining how a foreign sound contrast is acquired. The current project is an initial attempt to apply work in category learning to work in second language sound acquisition. Here, I advance that a cluster...

A New Trellis Shaping Design for OFDM

In this paper, a novel peak-to-average power reduction method based on the trellis shaping is proposed for OFDM systems. The trellis shaping decoder is designed to control the transmitted data sequence based on the minimization of the autocorrelation sidelobe components. For this purpose, the branch metric of the decoder is devised such that the Viterbi algorithm is applicable. The overall perf...

Shaping of hooks in New Caledonian crows.

Many animals use tools, but their understanding of physical forces or causal relations is unclear (1, 2). Primates are considered the most versatile and complex tool users, but observations of New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides) (3–5) raise the possibility that these birds may rival nonhuman primates in tool-related cognitive capabilities. We report here an experiment inspired by the obs...

Phonoarthrography: A New Technique for Recording Joint Sounds