Shoshone phonemes

Predicting phonemes

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...

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...

Detecting Determinism in Speech Phonemes

This paper presents a discriminating approach to detecting the existence of underlying determinism in speech phonemes using the surrogate data method. The discrimination is made using a statistical measurement of neighboring trajectory directions. This approach is experimentally verified with both deterministic and stochastic time series and then applied to speech phonemes from the TIMIT databa...

Learning Phonemes Without Minimal Pairs

The question addressed by this research is how humans acquire the internalized, mental categories that reflect the phonemes of their language. That humans have such categories is evidenced by the fact that, for example, English speakers immediately recognize pear and bear as being different words. This immediate realization is independent of the fact that these two words have different meanings...