This study tested the hypothesis that object-based attention modulates the discrimination of level increments in stop-consonant noise bursts. With consonant-vowel-consonant (CvC) words consisting of an ≈80-dB vowel (v), a pre-vocalic (Cv) and a post-vocalic (vC) stop-consonant noise burst (≈60-dB SPL), we measured discrimination thresholds (LDTs) for level increments (ΔL) in the noise bursts pr...

This study examined the perception of short and long vowels in Arabic and Japanese by native Japanese (NJ) and nonnative learners of Japanese (NNJ). Ten Japanese vowels (5 short, 5 long) were given as response categories. As expected, the NJ listeners categorized the Japanese vowels more accurately than did the NNJ listeners (91 vs. 83%). Further, the NJ listeners tended to identify Japanese lo...

This study is a formant-based investigation of the vowels of male speakers in 13 accents of the British Isles. It provides F1/F2 graphs (obtained with a semi-automatic method) which could be used as starting points for more thorough analyses. The article focuses on both phonetic realization and systemic phenomena, and it also provides detailed information on automatic formant measurements. The ...

This quantitative study examines vowel adaptation patterns in English-based Standard Mandarin (SM) loanwords drawn from a dictionary corpus. The findings are: (i) English non-central vowels are mostly matched in backness in SM, (ii) English high and low vowels have a strong tendency to be retained as high and low respectively in SM, whereas matches for English mid vowels mostly vary between mid...

We report investigations into speaker classification of larger quantities of unlabelled speech data using small sets of manually phonemically annotated speech. The Kohonen speech typewriter [1] is a semi-supervised method comprised of selforganising maps (SOMs) that achieves low phoneme error rates. A SOM is a 2D array of cells that learn vector representations of the data based on neighbourhoo...

• has rich morphology -> many word forms. Phonetics Amharic has a set of 38 phones, seven vowels and thirty-one consonants. Consonants Manner Voicing Place of Articulation of Art/n Lab Dent Pal Vel Glo Stops Voiceless p[p] t[t] m[t∫ ] k[k] …[?] Voiced b[b] d[d] ¥[d ] g[g] GlottalizedÍ[p‘] μ[t‘] 1⁄2[t∫ ‘]q[q] Rounded [kw], [gw], [qw] Fricatives Voiceless f[f] s[s] ][∫ ] h[h] Voiced z[z] •[ ] Glo...

as pioneer trends in iranian computational dialectology, the leveneshtain algorithm applied to mazandarani dialect data - extracted from lai – revealed regional dialect in the northern range of the alborz mountains. current synchronic fieldwork aimed to determine vowels responsible for regional variation, and likewise reliability and validity of the research findings, through vowel frequency me...