The syllables of Mandarin are usually divided into four different structures. Previous studies on adults and children reported the features of F0 contours across different syllable structures in Mandarin. This paper presents the stability of some parameters of Tone 2 F0 contours across different syllable structures. The indicator of stability for F0 is Standard Deviation (SD) while the paramete...

Three parameters are considered in the typology of Latin syllable structure: 1) phonotaxis of syllable structure, 2) correspondence of syllable structure with morpheme structure, 3) syllable structure processes. With respect to these parameters, Latin may be characterized as follows: 1. Latin allows moderate complexity of the onset, which, during its history, gets further reduced. Similarly, co...

Many studies focused on the importance of statistical and distributional properties to account for the prelexical and segmental role of syllable-sized units in silent reading in French. We explored how skilled readers segmented printed (pseudo)words when no reliable statistical cues were available around and within the syllable boundary. We were interested in how sonority, a universal phonologi...

This paper presents research results on new syllable structures for the Portuguese language. The location of the syllable boundaries is a well known problem of nonconsensual resolution in Portuguese, mainly when the acoustic-phonetic constraints are taken into account. Based on various acoustic-phonetic restrictions of Portuguese speech, new syllable splitting rules were studied in a corpus of ...

The paper focuses on the phonetic realisation of the Livonian stød. An investigation of the temporal and tonal characteristics of words with and without stød consisting of a long first syllable and a short second syllable in spontaneous speech was carried out. The changes in pitch alignment, durations and duration ratios of the syllables in disyllabic words were analysed and the role of intensi...

In [1], a novel approach is proposed for automatically segmenting and transcribing continuous speech signal without the use of manually annotated speech corpora. In this approach, the continuous speech signal is first automatically segmented into syllable-like units and similar syllable segments are grouped together using an unsupervised and incremental clustering technique. Separate models are...

This paper compares prominence that listeners perceive with actual articulatory prominence. We calculated phrasal boundaries from articulatory patterns using an algorithm of the C/D model, and compared those calculated boundaries with perceived boundaries. The jaw displacements, measures of prominence, were measured using EMA; articulatory boundaries were derived from a C/D model algorithm. The...