Three groups of listeners, one with a /p,t,k/ stop system in the syllable coda (Dutch), one with /p,k,?/ (ChaoShan) and one with / p,t,k,?/ (ZhangQuan) were asked to identify the final C in CVC-stimuli as one of the consonants [p,t,k,?]. Identification was affected by the nature of the coda C and the V. The identification of the bilabial stop significantly increases after /i/, that of the velar...

We report in this paper the results of a study carried out to analyse the acoustic and perceptual characteristics of Italian stop consonants. The aim of this study is twofold: give an acoustical description of Italian stops and investigate which are the perceptual cues relative to their place of articulation. From the acoustic point of view we report: the measurements relative to the length of ...

This paper investigates acoustic features correlated with voicing (VOT, stop duration, closure duration, release duration, voicing into closure duration, duration of preceding vowel and duration of following vowel) and with the place of articulation (spectral peaks) of stop consonants /p, b, t, d, k, g/. A corpus with these stops in initial, medial and final word position was recorded for six n...

Voice onset times ~VOT! and burst frequencies of two aspirated ~i.e., /k /, /g/) and two unaspirated ~i.e., /k/, /g/! Gujarati velar stop consonants were investigated in an effort to provide characteristic acoustic information. Stop consonants in a monosyllabic vowel–consonant–vowel ~VCV! production were obtained from eight native speakers of Gujarati. Differences in mean VOT and burst frequenc...

In the present study various durations of closure, preceding vowel etc. have been studied in meaningful Hindi two consonant cluster words with stop consonants ( such as /s ptah/ (week) and / bd (word)). The data included 80 most frequently occurring clusters of Hindi language. All these words were recorded by five male speakers and analysed using the Sensimetrics speech station software package...

Variation across talkers in the acoustic-phonetic realization of speech sounds is a pervasive property of spoken language. The present study provides evidence that variation across talkers in the realization of American English stop consonants is highly structured. Positive voice onset time (VOT) was examined for all six word-initial stop categories in isolated productions of CVC syllables and ...

The imitation of spoken stop consonants by an articulatory synthesizer using only general learning principles addresses significant issues in speech inversion and speech acquisition. Stop consonants are relatively large, complex acoustic events resulting from discrete articulations, so inversion based on the use of small time windows or based on the minimisation of average articulatory error ac...