This paper investigates the tonal patterns in the 15 th century from a corpus-based approach, focusing on two historical sources, 日 本 館 譯 語 Rìbĕn kuăn yìyŭ ‘A Wordlist of Chinese-Japanese Phrases’ and 朝 鮮 館 譯 語 Cháoxiān kuăn yìyŭ ‘A Wordlist of ChineseKorean Phrases’. The results suggest that Japanese and Korean are signiifcantly different in the phonetic transcription of low tone in monosyllab...

Given the data presented, the main finding concerning structure of the final syllable seems very strong. However, many of the other patterns discussed seem open to challenge. Futhermore, the article does not include discussion what might be at the root of the intriguing syllable-structure effect. Since stress judgments from the experiment are included at the end of the article, many of these qu...

Our paper investigates the phonetic correlates of syllable structure focusing on syllabic consonants. Cross-linguistically, syllables containing consonantal nuclei are often subject to a number of restrictions compared to their vocalic counterparts. However, some languages, like Slovak, allow relatively freely distributed syllabic liquids. Phonetic studies of syllable structure have shown that ...

This study explores the effects of prosodic boundaries on nasality at intonational phrase, word, and syllable boundaries. The subjects were recorded saying phrases that contained a syllable-final nasal consonant followed by a syllable-initial stop. The timing, duration, and magnitude of the nasal airflows measured were used to determine the extent of nasality across boundaries. Nasal amplitudes...

We examined the tonal alignment and scaling patterns of the start and end points of the French late rise, using a rate manipulation paradigm. Our findings call into question aspects of the segmental anchoring hypothesis: the low starting point of the late rise was not stably anchored to a segmental landmark, and for some speakers, F 0 excursion size varied across rates. The position of the peak...

We show that presentation of individual canary song syllables results in distinct expression patterns of the immediate-early gene ZENK in the caudomedial neostriatum (NCM) of adult canaries. Information on the spatial distribution and labeling of stained cells provides for a classification of ZENK patterns that (1) accords to the organization of stimuli into families, (2) preserves the stimuli ...

We examined the tonal alignment and scaling patterns of the start and end points of the French late rise, using a rate manipulation paradigm. Our findings call into question aspects of the segmental anchoring hypothesis: the low starting point of the late rise was not stably anchored to a segmental landmark, and for some speakers, F 0 excursion size varied across rates. The position of the peak...

We recorded articulatory data to investigate the influence of consonantal coarticulation resistance on consonant-vowel timing in Polish onset clusters. While recent studies found different onset-vowel timing patterns depending on the position of the sibilant within the cluster, it is widely unknown how onset-vowel timing interacts with different degrees of coarticulation resistance of the vowel...

This paper introduces a method to detect lexical stress errors in unit selection synthesis automatically using machine learning algorithms. If unintended stress patterns can be detected following unit selection, based on features available in the unit database, it may be possible to modify the units during waveform synthesis to correct errors and produce an acceptable stress pattern. In this pa...

The Japanese dialect of Kagoshima (KJ) has two different surface pitch patterns, (L)HL and (L)H. In this study, the properties of these two surface pitch patterns of KJ will be acoustically-phonetically described by means of z-score normalisation. Words consisting of two, three, four and five syllables were used in this study (the syllable structure is a CV) as test words, and the F0 of each sy...