Correspondingly to overexposure advertising and oversaturation of sales markets, companies are required explore ways protrude. One way enhance differentiate oneself from competitors is sound branding. Part branding refers the sound-symbolic perception certain linguistical features. This article examines relationship between obstruents a perceived harshness. Based on study done by Pathak et al. ...

Phonatory control by laryngeal movement is discussed by summarizing our two previous studies regarding the role of vertical larynx movement based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) observation. The first study focuses on a fundamental frequency (F0) control mechanism involving vertical larynx movement. Mid-sagittal images were recorded during vowel productions with a descending musical scale. ...

Many Italian dialects, such as Lombardian for instance, display intervocalic voicing of the fricative s. In some very restricted environments, intervocalic s-voicing does not apply. When prefixes ending in a vowel are attached to roots starting with an s, this s surfaces as voiceless (a-[s]ociale 'asocial'). However, the final s of prefixes, such as dis-, surfaces as voiced in combination with ...

phonological patterns and detailed phonetic patterns can combine to produce unusual acoustic results, but criteria for what aspects of a pattern are phonetic and what aspects are phonological are often disputed. Early literature on Romanian makes mention of nasal devoicing in word-final clusters (e.g. in /basm/ ‘fairy-tale’). Using acoustic, aerodynamic and ultrasound data, the current work inv...

In the acquisition of a second language, numerous factors interact simultaneously, including the patterns of the first language (L1), the patterns of the target language (L2), universals of language acquisition, and the amount and type of exposure to the L2. English is learned as a second language in India, where the first languages of the English learners differ widely in the phonotactics of c...

Previous studies on the acoustic properties of Greek vowels have indicated that they may have voiceless realisations in certain phonological contexts. Researchers have suggested that such devoicing is restricted to the high vowels /i/ and /u/ [7], [10]. Analysis of production data from 12 native Greek speakers suggests that devoicing is not restricted to the high vowels but that other vowels ca...

This paper focuses on the perception and production of the English alveolar stops (/t/ and /d/) in syllable coda by Brazilian learners of English. In the production test, the participants read a list of English sentences containing alveolar stops in word-final position. The preceding and following phonological contexts were controlled, so that the effect of context on the production of the alve...

Words in connected speech are often assimilated to subsequent words. Some property of that upcoming word may then be determined in advance; these advance assimilatory cues may facilitate perception of that word. A gating experiment was conducted in Dutch, studying anticipatory voice assimilation between plosives, in 24 two-word combinations. In Dutch, voicing in a word-final plosive can only be...

1 IfL Phonetik, University of Cologne, Herbert-Levin-Str. 6, D-50931 Köln, Germany 2 Department of Cognitive and Information Sciences, University of California, Merced, 5200 North Lake Rd., Merced, CA 95343, USA 3 Department of Linguistics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6 D-04103 Leipzig, Germany 4 School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences, Un...