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. ...

Two apparently contradictory observations have been made about consonantal voicing in Southern U.S. English: compared to other varieties, speakers produce more on “voiced” stops, but they also “devoice” word-final /z/ at higher rates. In this article, regional differences final realization within Virginia are investigated. Thirty-six students from Southwest and Northern were recorded completing...

This study compares the VOT measurements between Persian and English stutterers. The speech samples of five adult stutterers (four males and one female) of each language were recorded during a reading task. 98 stuttering events in words beginning with plosives and 34 fluent plosives (i.e., final fluent iterations following the stuttered portions of speech) were identified in the data of both gr...

In this paper the authors propose a completely automatic speake r independent system to recognize a ll six stop consonants in continuous speech. Thi s system makes use of three differe nt distinctive features including formant transitions, silent interval and voice onset time. One hundred and twenty sentences from six English speakers were selected and tested by the system. The results confirm ...

Voiced/unvoiced classification is a task from the field of acoustics to assess the vocal folds’ contribution to speech production within a given piece of sound. However, it is a difficult task, commonly approached through means of digital signal processing, which usually delivers subpar results, especially in the transition regions between the two classes. Artificial neural networks deliver res...

This work presents a novel technique to enhance speech signals in the presence of interfering noise. In this paper, the amplitude and frequency (AMFM) modulation model [7] and a multi-band analysis scheme [5] are applied to extract the speech signal parameters. The enhancement process is performed using a time-warping function (n) that is used to warp the speech signal. (n) is extracted from th...

The current study addresses the impact of manner of articulation on the intelligibility of voicing contrast in noise from a cross-linguistic perspective. Previous noise-masking studies have suggested that the impact of manner of articulation on the intelligibility of voicing contrast in noise is apparently different in Russian and English. In order to further assess the source of such a cross-l...

English has assumed a new role in international communication in recent decades, that is, as a Lingua Franca (ELF) among speakers with different first languages. This study attempts to investigate and analyze Chinese university students’ perception and production of paired English fricatives from the perspective of ELF. By using a listening discrimination task and a reading task, respectively, ...

This paper presents a new approach for estimating voice source and vocal tract filter characteristics of voiced speech. When it is required to know the transfer function of a system in signal processing, the input and output of the system are experimentally observed and used to calculate the function. However, in the case of source-filter separation we deal with in this paper, only the output (...

The aim of this paper is to elucidate a comprehensive perspective on translanguaging practices in EFL classrooms Indonesia by reviewing empirical literature published scientific journals and/or proceedings focusing four primary areas, which include: (1) research methodology, (2) advantages and disadvantages translanguaging, (3) languages used when (4) perceptions attitudes toward translanguagin...