The Text-to-Speech (TTS) system does rely on syllable boundary information for segmental duration. However, ambisyllabic consonants always pose a problem to TTS because the system requires clear syllable boundaries to segment and concatenate. In order to provide a possible solution to this problem, /n/ and /l/ in VLCAVR are chosen in this paper as the target to be examined whether their duratio...

Experimental evaluation is an important way to assess distributed systems, and fault injection is the dominant technique in this area for the evaluation of a system’s dependability. For distributed systems, network failure is an important fault model. Physical network failures often have far-reaching effects, giving rise to multiple correlated failures as seen by higher-level protocols. This th...

This paper examines the perceptual weight of cues to the coda glottal consonant contrast in Trique (Oto-Manguean) with native listeners. The language contrasts words with no coda (/Vː/) from words with a coda glottal stop (/VɁ/) or breathy coda (/Vɦ/). The results from a speeded AX (same-different) lexical discrimination task show high accuracy in lexical identification for the /Vː/-/Vɦ/ contra...

This paper investigates how different syllable affiliations of intervocalic /st/ cluster affect vowel-to-vowel coarticulation in English. Very few studies have examined the effect of syllable structure on vowel-to-vowel coarticulation. Previous studies show that onset and coda consonants differ acoustically, articulatorily, perceptually and typologically. Onsets are stronger, more stable, more ...

0749-596X/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Inc http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2012.10.004 ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: School of Psyc New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia. Fa E-mail address: [email protected] (M. Taft). The way in which letters are assigned their position when recognizing a visually presented word was examined in three experiments using nonwords created by transpo...

The attenuation of seismic waves is one of the basic physical parameters used in seismological studies and earthquake engineering, which is closely related to the seismicity and regional tectonic activity of a particular area. In this work, the seismic attenuation in the Straits of Messina, affected by several and strong historical earthquakes, was studied using waveforms recorded by a local se...

Suele establecerse en la gramática del español una dicotomía entre un tan(to) demostrativo, pero no comparativo, y comparativo. Son objetivos de este trabajo demostrar pertinencia esta distinción, presentar el denominado demostrativo comparativo como resultado mera elisión segundo constituyente cuantificador igualdad “tan(to) + coda”, establecer las condiciones contextuales y/o situacionales qu...

Detection of precursor damage followed by the quantification of the degraded material properties could lead to more accurate progressive failure models for composite materials. However, such information is not readily available. In composite materials, the precursor damages-for example matrix cracking, microcracks, voids, interlaminar pre-delamination crack joining matrix cracks, fiber micro-bu...

PURPOSE The goal of this study was to better understand how and when onset /l/ (leap) and coda /l/ (peel) are acquired by children by examining both the articulations involved and adults' perceptions of the produced segments. METHOD Twenty-five typically developing Australian English-speaking children aged 3;0 (years;months) to 7;11 participated in an elicited imitation task, during which aud...

ÐThis paper describes a knowledge-based approach to automate a software design method for concurrent systems. The approach uses multiple paradigms to represent knowledge embedded in the design method. Semantic data modeling provides the means to represent concepts from a behavioral modeling technique, called Concurrent Object-Based Real-time Analysis (COBRA), which defines system behavior using...